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BEULAH: 



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Some of the Fruits 



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One Consecrated Life, 



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DORA G. DUDLEY. 



Revised and Enlarged Edition. 



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Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Published by the Author. 

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Copyiuomt, 1896, by Doka. G. Dudley. 



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CONTENTS, 



Introduction, 11 

I. Consecration, 15 

II. Test of Faith, 25 

III. Leadings of the Holy Spirit, 34 

IV. " " " " (Continued) 43 

V. " " " " (Concluded) 53 

VI. Why all are not healed, 60 

VII. " " " " (Concluded) 67 

VIII. Beulah, 76 

IX. " (Concluded) 86 

X. Spiritual Gifts, 92 

XI. New Experiences, , 97 

XII. Physical Tests, 101 

XIII. Miraculous Answers and Deliverances, 110 

XIV Asleep in Jesus 118 

XV Closing Thoughts, 126 



TESTIMONIES. 

PAGE 

Mrs. F. L. Childs, 129 

Mrs. Mary A. Ferris, 134 

Mr. S. A. Plummer, 137 

Mrs. Esther Hufford, 139 

Mrs. Susan E. Miller, 140 

Mrs. Critchlow's child, 141 

Mrs. E. A. Adams, 141 

Mr. A. C. Barkley, , 142 

Mrs. C. B. Jameson, 149 

Mrs. C. L. Peck, 150 

Mr. W. H. Lintz, 150 

Mr. Lyman H. Wilmot, 151 

Miss Eachel Sterling, 155 

Mr. George Spencer, 157 

Mrs. Etta Orton, 158 

Mrs. Margaret Lattin, 159 

Mr. D. E. Croff, 162 

Mrs. Marian Skinner, 163 

Mr. W. P. Smith, 164 

Colonel C. W. Campbell, 166 

Miss Gertie Wright, 168 

Mrs. Henry Youngblood, 171 

Mrs. George Walters, 173 

Mrs. E. L. McLaine, 175 

Captain Haight, 177 



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Mrs. Stella Wyatt Smythe, 178 

Mrs. Anna Palmer, 181 

Mrs. Rosa Nevins, 183 

Mrs. Emma Sampson, 184 

Mrs. Reynolds, 188 

Mrs. Nellie Conant, 189 

Mrs. G. Hoebeke, 190 

Mrs. Cora Elmore, , 194 

Mrs. Agnes Peck, 195 

Mrs. Susie George, 196 

Mrs. C. Osterle, 197 

Mrs. Martha Trankler, 198 

Mrs. Mary Halladay, 205 

Mrs. L. Crowel, 207 

Mrs. Libbie Proud, 208 

Miss Ida Conrad, 209 

Miss Carrie Johnson, 211 

Mrs. Nettie Pratt Card, 212 

Miss Libbie Murray, 215 

Miss Maggie Townley, 216 

Mr. Edwards and Mrs. John Miller, 217 

Mrs. Humphrey, 219 

Mrs. Addie Whedon, 220 

Miss Carrie Atherton, 222 

Mrs. Phoebe Ewing, 223 

Mrs. Carrie Ceamberlain, 226 



Till 

Miss Helen J. Salyer, 229 

Mrs. Fannie McD. Hunter, 231 

Mrs. Clara S. Keclmond, 233 

Mrs. Dorlisca J. Wheeler, .". 236 

Mr. T. Saxton, 244 

Mrs. Mary Gould, 244 

Mrs. Emma Thomas, 24T 

Mrs. Minnie La Fave, 248 

Mr. T. A. McMillan, 249 

Mrs. Capt. Eeed, 251 

Captain Eeed, 259 



PREFACE. 



The Holy Ghost so strongly impresses me that some 
later experiences of my own and others will be a 
greater blessing now than to republish the little book 
as it was first written. I shall, under His guidance, 
make such additions. This will necessitate a change 
in the title, from "Beulah, or Two and One-half Years 
of Consecrated Life," to "Beulah, or Some of the 
Fruits of One Consecrated Life." I trust this may 
stimulate others to consecrate all to Him, and re- 
ceive the Holy Ghost. 

Much good has been done by the first publication, 
and I pray that much more may be accomplished by 
the present. 

From every quarter come reports of blessings to 
the souls and bodies of those who have read it. With 
a grateful heart, I thank God and trust for power to 
give just such experiences and testimonies as He can 
further bless. 

The proceeds from the sale of this book and all of 
my publications will be wholly used in the work of 
the Lord. 

My most earnest prayer to God is that a special bap- 
tism of the Holy Ghost may come upon every one who 
shall read or purchase any of them, and upon every 
one who has contributed, or shall contribute in any 
way, to this branch of the Lord's work. 

DOBA G. DUDLEY. 



INTRODUCTION, 



I have been requested, by the author, to write an 
introduction to this book. I thank God for the privi- 
lege of doing so, both because of my great interest in 
the author herself, and because the book is one of 
sterling merit. And this volume has the super-added 
merit of being the production of one who has been 
taught of God. 

If we view this book as furnishing an account of 
God's personal dealings with her, and of the trying 
disciplinary steps she was compelled to take in her 
preparation for the work for which her Father was 
preparing her, it is full of most valuable lessons to 
those who are willing to lay all upon God's altar and to 
live for His glory alone. If we regard it as a treatise 
of true consecration and faith, for practical purposes, 
it is more valuable; for in every successive step in 
her development it is made apparent that everything 
must be thorough, if one would be fully taught of God 
and be thoroughly equipped for some God-appointed 
service. In following this courageous soul through 
the severe and multiplied testings to which her faith 
was subjected before her own body was thoroughly 
healed, one is almost made to wonder that she did not 
at times yield to utter discouragement; but God was 
back of every trial, and never suffered her to be 
tempted above her ability, in Christ, to endure all that 



12 INTRODUCTION. 

He permitted to come upon her. Then, too, when we 
look at the numerous testimonies of Divine Healing 
recorded in this volume, we would be worthy to rank 
among the most stalwart unbelievers, if w r e do not 
confess that Jesus Christ is still able and willing to 
heal those who come in touch with Him through a liv- 
ing faith. These testimonies cannot fail to carry with 
them the conviction, too, that the trite saying, "The 
days of miracles are passed," is true only in the case 
of those who are devoid of "The faith of the love of 
God." 

We rejoice, too, that God deigns still to use His 
own handmaidens whom He Himself calls and quali- 
fies for the work He assigns them, as is so abundantly 
demonstrated in this little book. Nor is this an iso- 
lated instance. The writer has the honor of a per- 
sonal acquaintance with a few other "heroines of 
faith," who, like the author of this volume, have been 
trained in the school of trial in which faith was forced 
to take on a stalwart form or retire from the field al- 
together. God be praised for all such gifts to suffer- 
ing humanity! 

Another pleasing feature of the book we are seek- 
ing to introduce to the public is, that physical healing 
is not set forth as the thing of greatest importance; 
but the spiritual union, the soul's real union w T ith 
Christ through the Holy Spirit, is represented as the 
thing of supreme value. To be sure, it is a blessed 
thing to have a healed body — better still, a healthy 
body; but what is this to compare to a healed and 
healthy soul and spirit, made such by union with the 
living Christ! In this volume things seem to have as- 
sumed, without any studied effort on the part of the 



INTRODUCTION. 13 

author, their proper places, or to have had assigned 
them their relative importance. 

Then, when we look back to see who she was, and 
what a feeble hope she must have had (if she had any, 
before she fully surrendered herself to Christ) that she 
would ever live to accomplish anything of note in the 
world, what an inspiration her life and later work 
should be to others! How should all of us, who have 
surrendered ourselves to God, feel called to greater en- 
durance and greater courage of faith, when we see 
what God has wrought in her and by her! 

We believe that this enlarged edition will accom- 
plish, under God, much for the good of His people and 
much for the glory of God. It ought to find a very 
wide circulation in all Gospel lands, since the Gospel 
of the blessed God is so forcefully illustrated in its 
pages; and may He wiio called and qualified her for 
her work so direct, by His providence, that multiplied 
thousands of this edition may be scattered abroad as 
"leaves of healing" for the people. 

A. S. WORRELL. 



SOME OF THE FRUITS OF ONE 
CONSECRATED LIFE. 



CHAPTER I. 

CONSECRATION. 

Over two years ago I was enabled to make an entire 
consecration of my all to Jesus, and I feel to date my 
healing from that time. 

However, several weeks previous to this, I had been 
seeking the blessing of bodily healing and a higher 
Christian life, and, as a means to this end, I laid aside 
all remedies. Gathering my medicines together I took 
them back to the doctor, telling him that I had no fur- 
ther use for them, as I had taken Jesus for my Physi- 
cian. 

While the Holy Spirit was showing me how much 
there was in me to overcome before I could be made 
fit for the Master's use, this passage w^as applied to my 
mind with great force, signifying this was the way I 



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was to be led into the light: Matt. 17:21, "Howbeit 
this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting." 
Accordingly I humbled myself before the Lord with 
fasting and prayer, which were days of great distress 
and suffering of body, and such darkness of mind that 
I would, at times, lie on my face before the Lord, 
seemingly in a God-forsaken state, yet renewing my 
vows to become anything or nothing, only that God 
would be pleased to fit me for His service. (I have 
since learned this struggle is unnecessary if one will 
take Jesus in all his fullness and love.) I was> gen- 
erally called to fast when there was something for din- 
ner I was particularly fond of, so I found it a great self 
denial. I miss a meal more than most persons, and 
my Father did not often call me to fast more than 
one meal at a time; for it seemed I could scarcely live 
through the day in such darkness of soul and distress 
of body. 

Several times I wrote to Miss Judd, of Buffalo, to 
pray for me; and right here, I gratefully thank her, 
and all others who prayed for me, for their kind as- 
sistance and prayers. As soon as I could read a little 
I found great comfort in her book entitled "The Prayer 
of Faith"; also, "The Christian's Secret of a Happy 
Life," by H. W. S., which a friend kindly gave me to 
read. But the Lord made use of the dear little book, 
"Kept for the Master's Use," by Frances Havergal, in 
leading me to make an entire consecration of myself 
to Him, for I began to realize I was not my own; I 
was bought with a price, even the precious blood of 
Jesus. 

I took her poem for my own: 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 17 

"Take my life and let it be 
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee; 
Take my hands and let them move 
At the impulse of Thy love. 

"Take my feet and let them be 
Swift and beautiful for Thee; 
Take my voice and let me sing 
Always — only — for my King. 

"Take my lips and let them be 
Filled with messages for Thee; 
Take my silver and my gold — 
Not a mite would I withhold. 

"Take my moments and my days, 
Let them flow in endless praise; 
Take my intellect and use 
Ev'ry power as Thou shalt choose. 

"Take my will and make it Thine, 
It shall be no longer mine; 
Take my heart, it is Thine own, 
It shall be Thy royal throne. 

"Take my love, my God, I pour 
At thy feet its treasure store; 
Take myself, and I will be 
Ever, only, all for Thee." 

I wrote below these lines : "O Father, take me now, 
and keep me." Dora. 

7:30 P. M., July 16, 1885. 

This little book had been given me several years be- 
fore by a very dear friend, who little dreamed what a 
power it would prove in God's hands of leading me 
into a life of trust. It was laid aside for years, be- 
cause my eyes were so bad I could not use them in 
reading. My friend, Mrs. Winchester, from Buffalo, 
was visiting in Grand Kapids, and she told me of God's 
willingness to heal the body. She also told me of 
Miss Judd's healing, of her home and meetings, and 



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gave me "The Prayer of Faith," which, like "Kept for 
the Master's Use," was laid aside, without any special 
attention being given it. Now the Lord showed me 
my utter helplessness, and the inability of human phy- 
sicians to bring about a perfect cure. He suffered my 
business (which was our only support) to decrease, so 
I was not actually needed to do the little I could to 
assist in the business. I thought I might do a little 
for others, and I entered into the W. C. T. U. work, but 
soon found that every effort only increased my suffer- 
ing, which was constant. There were very few days 
that I could sit up all day for many, many years, and I 
never felt free from pain a moment, yet if I could keep 
up I called myself well. I will not here dwell upon 
the years of suffering and confinement to my bed and 
a dark room. Many thanks are due my dear friends 
and faithful physicians, Drs. Dolley of Albion, N. Y., 
and Botsford, of Grand Eapids, wiiose untiring efforts 
to bring relief and to perfect a cure were greatly 
blessed of God. Dr. B., by magnetic and homeopathic 
treatment, so far restored me that I seemed almost a 
miracle to all who knew me. Many prayers were of- 
fered in my behalf. I often felt that if I knew how x to 
take hold on Jesus I might be healed. No one showed 
me the way, so the blessing was asked upon the 
means. I partially recovered, and recommended the 
medicine and the doctor, not speaking of the prayers 
that were offered. 

When I was but one year old, my mother died of 
scrofulous consumption, and from mj earliest infancy I 
seemed to be filled with disease. I scarcely remember 
the time when I was free from pain until Jesus healed 
me. Glory to His name! 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 19 

There were a few years in my early womanhood that 
I seemed well, for I did not speak much of pain only 
when I had to give up to severe suffering, which came 
upon me every two or three weeks. At that time I 
went out sewing by the day, but little did those for 
whom I worked dream of the suffering I was hiding. 
I was ambitious to work when I could, as I needed the 
means and had become so accustomed to pain that I 
could endure a great deal before yielding to it. Fi- 
nally, one disease after another seized me until I had 
no power to resist. During this time I was extremely 
nervous, made so by severe and constant suffering, 
and when my eyes gave out my agony seemed beyond 
endurance. When Dr. Botsford commenced treating 
me, my strength was reduced so that I could not move 
nryself in bed, and my body was so tender that I could 
not endure the weight of the sheet over me without 
increasing the distress. I do not think there was a 
sound organ in my body. I also had very severe at- 
tacks of asthma and rheumatism, both acute and in- 
flammatory; but worst of all was the great suffering 
in my head and eyes. I could not endure the least ray 
of light without increasing the pain. No room could 
be made dark enough, so a frame was built over my 
bed and a thick blue curtain enveloped me. When 
opened enough for one to pass in to care for me, it 
seemed as though millions of needles were passing 
through iny ej^eballs and head, although the room was 
as dark as thick dark shades and drapery could make it. 
Here I lay many months, praying to die. This pain 
never entirely left my head or eyes until I gave my all 
to Jesus; and then, at times, it was only in the name 
and strength of Jesus that I could conquer the enemy, 



20 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

even after I claimed the work done on the finished 
work of the cross. After long and weary months of 
patient labor the doctor succeeded in raising me up. 
I improved slowly for several years under his con- 
stant treatment and called myself pretty well, but 
still I suffered, and w^as subject to frequent and severe 
attacks of illness. I then tried "Christian Science," 
during which time I lost the use of one eye. I then 
returned to Dr. Botsford, who was ever patient and 
kind with me and did all that human skill could do 
for my relief. I remained under his treatment, taking 
medicine daily for some of my many ailments, God 
alone knowing how much I suffered, until I gave up 
all and placed myself entirely in the hands of the great 
Physician, and consecrated all to Him, seeking to be 
"Sanctified, and meet for the Master's use, and pre- 
pared unto every good work." 2 Tim. 2:21. I had 
thought I would not speak much of my life of suffer- 
ing, but I am so often told, when I am pointing the 
tried one to Jesus, "Oh, you don't know anything about 
pain; you are so well." Now, I can say, from sad per- 
sonal experience, I know what suffering is — mental, 
spiritual, and physical. I had many, and severe trials 
of my faith, and at times was almost overwhelmed. I 
had held to earthly means with such persistence, I 
was just as determined to trust Jesus now, without 
any human helps. I commenced to ask God to speak 
to me through His word, which had always been a 
sealed book to me, although I had been a member of 
the Congregational Church since I was ten years of 
age and had lived as most Christians do. I now asked 
the Lord to make the Bible the "Lamp unto my feet, 
and a light unto my path." I then commenced asking 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 21 

that my eyes might be strengthened, so I could see 
to read in His name and strength. Truly He verified 
His promise to me, "Ask and ye shall receive." I had 
thought if I could go to Miss Judd or Dr. Cullis I would 
be healed sooner, and I asked the Lord to open up the 
way, if it were His will. Then the thought come to 
me, Jesus is everywhere present, you need not go away 
to find Him. I said, "Thy will be done." 

From the time I gave up my medicines and conse- 
crated myself I took the ground that I was healed by 
faith, and I was; but some days I seemed and felt 
worse, even for months after. But I held firmly to the 
promises, repeating them often to myself. "The prayer 
of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise 
him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be 
forgiven him." James 5:15. Notice, these are God's 
"shalls." Also, "That if two of you shall agree on 
earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall 
be done for them of my Father which is in Heaven." 
Matt. 18:19. "All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in 
prayer, believing, ye shall receive." Matt. 21 :22. Often, 
when I started out on my missions of love and mercy, 
I felt more like going to bed, because I was in such 
extreme suffering, walking long distances, sometimes 
wheeling a cripple or supporting the weak ones, and 
sometimes holding two meetings a day. Had I looked 
to my feelings I could not have told of Jesus' healing 
power. But I did not look within or about me, but 
straight up to Jesus and to His Word, and by faith the 
blessing was mine. "His faith," not mine. I learned 
to take no step without His guidance and in His name 
and strength. He always sustained me, although the 
strength came only step by step, and I had to put forth 



22 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

my foot to take the step before I realized the strength 
given. 

As I looked back from month to month I could see 
I really was a little better. My eyes were growing 
gradually stronger, although many times I could read 
but a few lines without distress, particularly in the 
evening. Had I yielded to the enemy at this time I 
should surely have lost the blessing. I would lay my 
hands upon my eyes in the name of Jesus and claim 
the promise, and ask Him to give an increase of 
strength; then try again, in His name, not waiting for 
the pain to leave. Sometimes I would be obliged to 
repeat this several times before I would gain vic- 
tory enough to go on. Here is where many lose the 
blessing. When the test comes they fear they will 
injure themselves, and will not continue to try perse- 
veringly in Jesus' name until the enemy is conquered. 
Please remember, dear tried ones, every victory gained 
in Jesus' name will make you stronger to win another 
and w T ill lessen the enemy's power over you. 

Many times while giving Bible lessons I could see 
only one word at a time; and as I spoke that, I could 
see another. Many verses have been read in this way 
when no one knew of the trial, and I never said "I can't 
see." Has He not promised that those who put their 
trust in Him shall never be confounded? 

It is impossible for me to describe what I suffered 
in my eyes and head. Anything red, white, bright in 
color, or more than a certain degree of light, or a close 
application even for a few r seconds, would cause an 
indescribable distress and pain, that would continue, 
even after the troublesome object was removed, until 
my whole body was weak and I would become faint 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 23 

and sick at my stomach from the pain. Many times 
when I had been out in the evening, or spent the day 
with friends w r ho would darken the rooms for me, I 
would suffer for days from the effect of the light. But 
Jesus overcame for me; and eternity will be too short 
for me to render sufficient praise for the wonderful de- 
liverances He has wrought for me. O beloved, when 
a victory is gained, do not forget to render thanks and 
praise to Jesus. 

I w^rote to Dr. Cullis, and later to Captain Carter, to 
pray for me, and was blessed every time any of God's 
dear children joined with me in prayer. First of all, 
I asked my own dear pastor to pray for me and felt 
blessed. He said, however, he knew very little about 
"Faith healing," but knew some were healed in that 
way. I find God's Word is full of counsel, of warning, 
and of precious promises bearing on this glorious truth 
of perfect deliverance for the body as well as the soul 
through the atoning blood of Christ by faith. "And 
His name, through faith in His name, hath made this 
man strong, whom ye see and know; yea, the faith 
which is by Him hath given him this perfect soundness 
in the presence of you all. And now, brethren, I wot 
that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your 
rulers." Acts, 3:16, 17. Only those who have tasted 
the power of Jesus and the Word of God, in faith, as 
it is brought to bear on our individual experiences, 
really know the duties and privileges of every true 
child of God in trusting Jesus and the power of His 
blood to deliver us from the power of Satan. Let me 
say to those who oppose this glorious truth, Beware 
how you trample the blood of Jesus under foot, for "Of 
how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be 



24 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son 
of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, 
wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and 
hath done despite unto the spirit of grace." Heb. 
10:29, 30. For the One who upholdeth all things by 
the power of His word, entrusted unto us a high and 
holy calling, when He made us His believing disciples, 
and said: "And these signs shall follow them that 
believe. In my name shall they cast out devils; 
* * * they shall lay hands on the sick, and they 
shall recover," Mark 16:17, 18; for "Himself took our 
infirmities, and bare our sicknesses." Matt. 8:17. 

When I see so many rejecting this part of the Gos- 
pel, which is so convincing to an unbelieving world, I 
feel to cry, Father, forgive them, for they know not 
what they do. "Jesus Christ the same, yesterday and 
to-day and forever." Heb. 13:8. 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 25 



CHAPTEK II. 

TEST OF FAITH. 

"Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a sea- 
son, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold 
temptations; that the trial of your faith being much 
more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it 
be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and 
honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ." 
1 Pet. 1:6, 7. 

When I gave up my medicines, I looked longingly 
at one remedy I used to take when I felt the first symp- 
toms of the severe and sudden colds with which I was 
often attacked, usually resulting in a distressing com- 
bination of asthma, congestion of the lungs and rheu- 
matism in every part of my body, any one of which 
caused me great suffering. I thought, Can I give up 
this remedy and trust Jesus to carry me through? I 
said, Yes, I will. Soon after this I felt a cold coming 
on and gave myself anew into the hands of the Great 
Physician. I felt that I must not yield to Satan's 
power (for I was learning to look upon pain and suffer- 
ing as from him), not even to lie down, or sit bolstered 
up in bed, as I could not lie down at such times. I 
was tested for three days and two nights, but my suf- 
fering was not nearly so severe as usual. Before this 
I would be almost or quite helpless from one to three 
weeks. 

A friend, visiting me at this time, did not believe 
much in this way, and I was very anxious not to dis- 



26 SOME OP THE FRUITS OP 

honor the name of Jesus. I had a class at the In- 
dustrial School for Poor Children, which came the 
third day of this attack. The distance was quite long, 
and I was very weak, but I thought for Jesus' sake I 
will go, and trust Him for strength. Strength was 
given me to fulfil my duties, but before I started for 
home it had commenced to rain, and Satan whispered, 
Now you will get wet and be obliged to call a phy sician 
after all, for you can't endure much more. I was al- 
ways very sensitive to atmospheric changes and damp 
air, and it seemed I could never reach home. As I 
thought over the distance I would have to go I felt 
as though I would drop on the walk. At once I be- 
came conscious that every breath was a prayer, and 
I finally reached home, after learning one of the sweet- 
est lessons of my life, which was, that I needed strength 
for only one step at a time; and when I put forth an 
effort in the name and for the glory of Jesus alone, 
strength was always given me. 

Immediately after dinner a sleepiness came over 
me — different from anything I had experienced before. 
It seemed I was only to close my eyes to be sound 
asleep. Before this I had not given up to any feelings, 
not even to allow^ others to talk to me about how I felt. 
I told only Jesus. But now these w^ords came to me 
so sw^eetly: "Come ye apart and rest awhile." I ex- 
cused myself and lay down. Before my friend had 
time to cover me I was in a sound sleep, and remained 
so the whole afternoon. When I awoke I was healed, 
and a sweet assurance was given me that I never 
would be tempted with these attacks above what I 
was able to bear, and that Jesus would always make a 
way of escape. Several months after this I was seized 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 27 

with another attack and lost my voice, but had to 
stay in only one day. Since this I have learned to 
take the very first symptoms to Jesus, and often He 
removes them before the disease comes upon me 

I had not been able for nearly eighteen years to go 
into the light without dark glasses, and I could not 
remain in the light when I felt the best without a 
great increase of pain, even with glasses. After 
claiming healing, I put on my glasses to go out one 
day, when the thought came to me, What would you 
saj' if anyone should ask you why you Avore them after 
you were healed? I said, Lord, I cannot open my 
eyes for the pain without them. It seemed that I 
heard the voice of Jesus speaking to my heart, saying, 
I will lead you. I said, I will trust Thee, precious 
Jesus. I laid aside my glasses, and truly He did lead 
me, for I could not open my eyes for nearly a block. I 
asked Him not to let me run off the w^alk, or against 
anyone. When I could open one eye enough to see 
where I was, I found myself in the middle of the walk, 
and all others passing on either side. "He leadeth 
me." Before I had gone far I had both eyes open, and 
suffered no more pain than usual with my glasses. 
The next time I went out I was very tired, and being 
so accustomed to take my glasses I started for them. 
Satan whispered, You had better take them, for you 
may need them. I took them, forgetting I had prom- 
ised Jesus I would trust Him. Of course, I needed 
them before reaching the gate. I went to the W. O. 
T. U., and the pain became so severe I had to leave 
soon after I entered. The pain increased, and contin- 
ued until I sought to learn the lesson my Lord would 
teach me. After continued waiting, the thought was 



28 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

given me, You promised to trust Me, and did not. I 
seemed to see my grieved Savior and Physician near. 
I said, Lord, forgive me, I will trust Thee. The next 
time I went out I started for my glasses, as usual, when 
again I seemed to hear my Lord say: Child, trust Me 
to take care of your eyes. I said, I will, Lord Jesus. 
I went forth in His name and strength with much less 
pain than before, and never put them on again but 
once. I went with a company to camp out a few days, 
dow r n the river. All took their colored glasses, and I 
thought, If well people protect their eyes, it will be 
right for me. One day the sun was very bright on 
the water and they all put on their glasses. I put 
mine on also, and immediately my eyes began to pain 
me. I took them off and said again, Jesus forgive me, 
I will trust Thee. After a little time one said, "Where 
are your glasses ?" I said, "Jesus is taking care of my 
eyes." I have never used them since, and truly He 
does care for my eyes. I can now see to read and write 
in the evening. As long as I keep close to Jesus I am 
free, praise His dear name. 

During the winter of 1886 I was tested most of the 
time with a cough and severe hoarseness. My throat 
was weak, and it was very difficult for me to talk. I 
gave it no heed, however, but continued to hold my- 
self before the Lord for release. He did not see fit to 
remove this trouble immediately, but I continued my 
work, holding from four to six meetings a week, and 
talking almost constantly, as I had many calls daily, 
asking about this old, yet new, way of faith. When 
my throat seemed weaker, or w T hen I was hoarser than 
usual, there would generally be some deaf people at 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 29 

the meetings, so I would have to make a great effort 
to speak louder, but the Lord always sustained me. 

Late iu the summer of 1887 I was the most severely 
tested that I have been since I came into the faith of 
Jesus for my body. But this only revealed to me my 
precious Physician's wondrous sustaining and keep- 
ing power; yes, and deliverance, also. It was neces- 
sary for me to assist in putting up a stove, because the 
furnace was not in running order. We had great diffi- 
culty in fitting the pipe, and it was late in the evening 
before we finished and put the room in order for use. 
I then took a dear invalid sister in my arms and car- 
ried her down stairs through the dining room into the 
warm room I had prepared for her. Then, stopping 
to warm, I realized, for the first time, that I was 
chilled through. Soon after I went to bed and the 
night was passed in painful broken sleep. Whenever 
I moved I would awake with pain, but I always asked 
Jesus to remove the pain and give me rest. Immedi- 
ately I would fall asleep again for a short time. The 
next morning I had to put forth the greatest effort, in 
the name and strength of Jesus, to arise and dress. I 
tried to appear natural before the family, but retired 
to my room soon after breakfast to inquire of the Lord 
His w r ill concerning me. Immediately I felt the 
sleepy w^ave coming over me, which always comes now 
as a token of rest. This touch of rest comes so unlike 
any other sleep. It often comes like a thrill passing 
through my whole being, and my eyes are so heavy 
with sleep I cannot hold them open. I sometimes be- 
come unconscious as soon as my eyes close — perhaps 
only for a few moments; but awaken as refreshed as 
though I had a night of sweet sleep. At this time, 



30 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

however, I slept as I did the night before, awaking in 
distress at short intervals. With the Lord's help, I 
was able to sit up in the afternoon and prepare my 
lessons for the week. The old diseases, asthma, con- 
gestion of the lungs, and rheumatism, seemed to come 
back with their former force. No one in the house 
knew how I was suffering. Another night was passed 
in broken sleep and pain. I arose as on the previous 
morning, passing the forenoon in the same way. My 
lungs were very painful, and my breath was labored 
and wheezy. I do not think one spot of my whole 
body was free from rheumatic pains. But I was in 
constant prayer. At noon I made an effort to rise and 
prepare for the afternoon meeting, four miles away. 
I grew faint and deathly sick. I said, O my God, 
shall I go? I took my Bible in the name of Jesus, and 
asked Him to direct me through His Word whether I 
should go. Everything grew dark and giddy, and I 
but dimly discerned these words: "And the apostles 
gathered themselves together unto Jesus and told 
Him all things." Mark 6:30. That was just what we 
were going to do at the meeting. Then my eyes caught 
these Avords: "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee 
whole; go in peace. Be not afraid; only believe." 
Mark 5 :34, 36. I said, Yes, Lord, I do believe it is Thy 
will I should go, and I will go in Thy strength. As I 
left the house I said to the family: "Pray for me." 
One remarked, "She ought to be in bed." I was some- 
what relieved, or I could not have reached the street 
car, one-half block from the house. I felt blessed in 
going. I had three blocks at the other end of the route 
to walk, and I could do this only by drawing strength 
each step from my blessed Lord. I was greatly dis- 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 31 

tressed when I reached the house, and immediately fell 
on my knees and asked those present to pray for me. 
Again I was much relieved, and was able partly to con- 
duct the meeting. When I returned home I was so 
much better that I almost forgot my distress. Next 
morning I was very weak, my lungs sore and my cough 
bad, and it was very difficult for me to talk. The pain 
had nearly left my body, but it was sore and lame 
when I moved. Quite early a gentleman and lady 
called to talk with me and to learn more of this way 
of faith. Strength was given me to talk with them 
most of the day, and as a result of this day's work I 
have many times heard him speak of the great blessing 
which came to their lives, and to the whole family. 

That same evening I had a meeting, and in the name 
of Jesus I went forth, but was obliged to request pray- 
ers again before I could go on with it. Next day I was 
called out to visit the sick in the forenoon, and gave 
my usual "Bible reading" in the afternoon. I was 
called out in the evening, and was away all night with 
the sick. I walked home the next forenoon, over one 
and one-half miles, calling upon the sick on my way. 
I answered some letters in the afternoon. About 4 p. 
m. I received a note asking me to go across the river 
to see a lady who was thought to have the consump- 
tion. As I had a meeting in that ward in the evening, 
I asked for strength to carry me through, and started 
in the name of Jesus. The lady was healed. 

I had quite a long walk to the place of the meeting. 
It had rained a little all day, but the rain had been in- 
creasing, and it was now raining quite hard. This 
only showed to me my Lord's wondrous keeping power. 

The next forenoon I was engaged with the sick at 



32 SOME OP THE FRUITS OF 

Beulah, and, as usual, conducted the afternoon meet- 
ing. Saturday was a busy day, and at night I was 
called out again to watch and pray all night with a 
sister who was suffering with inflammatory rheuma- 
tism. She was wonderfully relieved in answer to 
prayer. I also suffered much that night, but was great- 
ly sustained. I felt the week had been one of great 
trial and wonderful victory. I saw, as never before, 
how I could draw strength for the moment's need, if I 
did not yield to the enemy (even though the suffering 
remained). My blessed Eedeemer would sustain me 
and glorify Himself in my weakness. The cough re- 
mained several weeks, while the other diseases grad- 
ually passed away. 

Beloved, it is the testing time that proves our faith. 
So many yield and thus dishonor their Lord, when the 
suffering seems to increase or remain. If my Lord 
sees fit to take me to Himself before He comes, I want 
to go in full faith for soul and body. And surely, I 
want to be one in whom He "shall find faith" when He 
comes. I feel I would sooner die than bring a reproach 
on His dear name. As I look back over this week of 
trial, work and victory, I could praise the Lord for it all. 

A heavy window fell upon my hand with such force 
that it dented my knuckles. The pain was intense, but 
I immediately laid the other hand upon it in the name 
of Jesus and claimed the promise, telling the Lord He 
knew how much I had to do for Him that day and 
needed my hand to use in His work. When I took my 
hand off the pain was gone and only a little redness 
remained. I went on with my work, praising the 
Lord, and had no trouble with it. 

The furnace pipe passes through my room, and one 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 33 

day, while bathing, I accidentally leaned my wet back 
against the hot pipe, burning it so badly that I left 
the mark of the skin on the pipe. I at once presented 
my case to the Lord for relief and promised to give 
Him the glory. The severe pain ceased at once. As I 
looked in the glass, I saw a place nearly as large as 
my hand, red as raw beef. I dressed and went to my 
meeting and told what the Lord had done for me. It 
was not even sore, and never gave me the least trouble, 
and the new skin grew in a short time. 

After giving ourselves into the Lord's hands, and 
while waiting on Him for any blessing, we should not 
fear, nor wonder, nor doubt. We would not treat an 
earthly friend, in whom we have confidence, in this 
way. How much less should we thus treat our blessed 
Savior, who has given his precious life for our redemp- 
tion from sin and sickness. "Ye are not your own; 
for ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God 
in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. 1 
Cor. 6:19, 20. Beloved, did you ever think Jesus has 
purchased your body; whether in sickness or in health 
you are not your own? You are bought with the blood 
of the Son of God, and your body is the temple of the 
Holy Ghost. 1 Cor. 3 :17. Did you ever take any medi- 
cine that injured you? I have heard physicians say 
that more deaths are caused by medicines than by dis- 
ease. Jesus, my Physician, never makes any mistake; 
He never experiments. You can trust Him, for He 
has paid a great price for your w r hole being, which con- 
sists of spirit, soul and body and cannot be separated 
in this life. Oh, do not defile your body any longer 
with poisonous drugs and medicines, but put yourself 
into Jesus' hands and trust Him to make you whole! 



34 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 



CHAPTER III. 

THE LEADINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

One evening, in the early part of my experience, as I 
sat reading in the Bible, I was very happy. The spirit 
of prayer came over me, and I retired to my room and 
had a sweet talk with Jesus. I seemed almost to be 
carried to the "third Heaven." I asked Jesus that my 
sins might be all washed away. Immediately I was 
plunged into darkness. My prayer was ended. Then 
I cried to God in agony of soul to show me what I had 
done to grieve His Holy Spirit. I found no peace, so 
I returned to my Bible and opened to Matt. 8:22: 
"Jesus said unto him, Follow me, and let the dead 
bury their dead." I never could understand the mean- 
ing of that passage, and I turned the leaves to find 
something else, but they fell back to the same place, 
and as my eyes rested on the same verse it was like 
adding fuel to the fire. Again I tried to turn the 
leaves; again my eyes rested upon the same passage. 
Like a flash these thoughts were given to me: Let the 
dead past be buried in the past. You have repented of 
all your sins and put them away, and the witness of 
your acceptance has been given you that your sins 
have been removed from you "as far as the east is from 
the west." Now you have nothing more to do with 
them. They are "under the blood." Follow me. I said, 
I will, Lord Jesus. Happy consciousness! All the 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 35 

sins, mistakes and foolishness of my life are "under 
the blood." 

"I am out on the promise, 
I'm under the blood." 

Bless the Lord! And if I have ever caused any to 
suffer in any way, I here ask their forgiveness. I be- 
came very happy and praised God for the revelation, 
for through this trial I had learned the secret of hear- 
ing the sweet voice of my Lord speaking to me through 
His Word. And He says, Try me. And I find it so 
comforting and assuring to my faith to be directed by 
the "Sure Word of God." As soon as I consecrated 
myself to Jesus, my heart went out to the suffering 
ones. I had not been able to go into a sick-room for 
years without, in a measure, taking on the conditions 
of the sufferer. I had been such a great sufferer, my 
whole being went out in sympathy. 

And now, since I had found such a "balm in Gilead," 
such a "Physician there," a healer for both soul and 
body, I longed to tell the poor tempest-tossed and suf- 
fering ones all about the power of the Great Physician. 
A lady who had been confined to her bed most of the 
time for more than thirty years often came to my mind. 
I wanted to go to her and tell the glad tidings of de- 
liverance, but asked the Lord not to let me go until 
He sent me. Several wrecks after this I was led to 
visit her. While in prayer w^ith her the assurance was 
given me that she would walk. She had not stood or 
walked for nearly twenty years, and had taken only a 
few steps in thirty years. She is now able to walk 
about some, sits up several hours a day, and rides out 
occasionally. 



36 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

I have had great boldness given me from the first to 
rest on God's Word. I proclaimed at once that she 
would walk. Soon after this a dear Christian friend 
said: "What if she should not walk?" I said, "The 
prayer of faith shall save the sick." Again he said, 
"But what if she shouldn't?" I repeated James 5:15. 
Again he repeated his question, and I answered the 
same. We honor the Lord by asking great things of 
Him and believing He is able to perform them, for He 
says, "Come boldly unto the throne of grace, that ye 
may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of 
need." When I felt my heart going out to the suffering 
ones, I was led to ask for the gifts of faith, healing, and 
miracles. At this time, however, I did not realize that 
the gifts of healing and miracles were two gifts. The 
Lord showed me at once that He had granted my re- 
quest and bestowed these gifts upon me by the instan- 
taneous healing of a broken arm which had become a 
mass of corruption. The statement of which I will 
here give: 

About a month after my consecration I had repeated 
requests to visit an old lady who was suffering from 
the effects of a fall. I did not respond at once, for I 
feared, I hardly knew what. One Monday morning 
the Lord laid the burden upon my heart to go and see 
this lady. I prayed over the matter until near noon, 
w r hen the Lord showed me clearly it was His will I 
should go. Although I had claimed the blessing of 
healing by faith, yet I was far from feeling this glorious 
manifestation. I was in great weakness and suffering 
at times; particularly this day my suffering was in- 
tense. It seemed as though all my old diseases had re- 
turned with great fierceness. I could sit up only with 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 37 

the greatest effort and constant prayer. At last, after 
getting myself ready, I was obliged to sit down for a 
while before I could start. My anntie was quite 
shocked when she learned I was going out, and said 
I looked as though I had better go to bed. I started 
in the name of Jesus. I had not five cents to pay my 
street car fare, and it was a longer walk than I had 
taken in a long time. My suffering increased as I 
went, and the pain in my eyes was beyond description. 
I had laid aside my dark glasses and could not be 
tempted, under any circumstances, to take them again. 
The rheumatism in my joints made it almost impossi- 
ble for me to move, and Satan was given power over 
me. Job 2 :6 : "And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, 
he is in thine hand ; but save his life." Everything be- 
gan to turn dark before me. These were some of the 
thoughts that passed through my mind: You are a 
hypocrite; a pretty subject to go and tell of Christ's 
healing power. I cried mightily unto the Lord to give 
me relief, so I could go on; or, if I had mistaken the 
call, to increase the distress; only let me return home. 
As yet I was scarcely a block from home and there 
were ten blocks before me. I can never tell when re- 
lief came, but I was conscious as I went every breath 
was a prayer; and oh, how I prayed that God would 
show His power if He really had heard my prayer, in 
bestowing the gifts I had sought. The city mission- 
ary, who had invited me to visit this lad} 7 , and who 
lived in the lower part of the house, met me at the 
door with an exclamation of joy, saying she had been 
praying for me to come all the morning. I will fur- 
ther on insert her statement, given in one of the city 
papers. We went up stairs and found Mrs, Shepley 



38 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

sitting in a large chair, with her arm in a sling and her 
hand badly swollen and inflamed. She was the pic- 
ture of distress and despair. She said: "Mrs. Griffin, 
my arm is bad, but my head is worse. If all the bones 
in my body were broken, the pain could not be as bad 
as the pain in my head. I begged of my husband not 
to take me to the asylum if my reason left me." Mrs. 
Shepley had also suffered from catarrh for many years. 
I asked her if she believed God was able to heal her. 
She replied: "I do." I asked her if she believed He 
was willing to do it. Her reply was: "I do." I then 
said to her: "Do you believe Jesus will heal you?" 
She said: "Yes, I do." I read to her the account of 
Miss Jucld's healing, in the "Prayer of Faith." I then 
took the Bible, not knowing what I would read. The 
Lord gave me the 103d Psalm. I do not know that 
I had ever read it before; and I little thought what 
precious lessons on Divine Healing it contained. As 
I read, "Bless the Lord, O my Soul, and forget not all 
His benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who 
healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from 
destruction," etc., she took her arm out of the sling and 
laid it upon her lap, saying, "I feel the healing power 
to the ends of my fingers." When she spoke of feeling 
the healing, her hand and arm began to shake so vio- 
lently that it shook her whole body. When I first went 
in, she tried to move that hand a very little with the 
other, and the suffering was depicted on her face. We 
then knelt in prayer. When we arose from our knees 
she slipped the splints and bandage off her hand, when 
lo! the swelling and inflammation were all gone; the 
flesh and skin were perfectly restored, and nothing 
was left to mark the place of the loathsome sores but 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 39 

the appearance of a newly healed wound. Instantly 
she threw her arms above her head and ran toward me 
to embrace me and thank me for healing her and taking 
away all the pain, saying, "I don't feel any more pain 
in my head, arm or body than there is in that stove." 
I said, "Oh, no; don't give me the praise. It was not 
I. Jesus healed you. Let us kneel and give Him the 
praise and thanks." She said, "Call my husband first." 
When he came in, he sank into a chair and said, "What 
does this all mean?" She replied, "The Lord has healed 
me, and I am so happy." She plead with him to 
come to Jesus. He seemed to yield himself, and there 
was a great change in them. Several months after- 
ward they both united with the M. E. Church. A few 
moments after prayer Mrs. Burton w^as called. She 
had dressed the arm in the forenoon when she saw it, 
a raw mass of corruption. But as she looked and be- 
held the wonderful change she nearly fainted, sinking 
pale and trembling into a chair. When she could speak 
she said, "Truly it is restored whole as the other." I 
left them praising God. After this, I heard Mr. Shep- 
ley testify in meeting that the Friday night before the 
healing he ran for the neighbors and children to see 
his wife die. 

They lived in Grand Rapids more than a year after 
this. Mrs. Shepley was a regular attendant at the 
faith meeting, always testifying to the love and power 
of Jesus, with a beaming face, praising God. After 
they moved to Chicago I received letters from them, 
saying that they were w^ell and happy and had meet- 
ings at their home. Mrs. Burton, the city missionary, 
states as follows: 



40 SOME OP THE FRUITS OP 

"Mrs. Shepley came back from Macatawa Park, Fri- 
day, July 17, 1885. She was sick, and explained that 
on the preceding Monday morning she fell down a stair- 
way, severely hurting her head and neck, and sprain- 
ing her left wrist. One week after, Monday, July 20, 
she consulted a physician, who pronounced the wrist 
broken. He set and splinted it with a plaster of 
paris splint. During the three weeks that followed, 
her suffering from the pressure of the splint on the 
swollen and inflamed arm was distressing to see, and 
when removed by the physician, Tuesday, August 11th, 
quite a quantity of pus, blood and corrupted flesh 
dropped into her lap. The doctor exclaimed, 'Why did 
you not come to me before?' Two large cavities were 
left in her arm, one near her elbow and another near 
the wrist, besides several smaller ones in a condition 
nearly as bad. On Friday, August 14th, when the arm 
was bared for dressing, it looked, if possible, still worse, 
and she said that it was even more painful and sore. 
Monday, August 17th, she was still carrying the arm 
in a sling in this condition, unable to move it except 
with the other hand, and was groaning and crying with 
distress. It was so swollen, inflamed and spotted, 
that, fearing erysipelas, I urged her to see the doctor 
that day. 

"Once or twice the preceding week I had spoken to 
Mrs. Griffin about visiting her, as I believed her cheer- 
ful, positive faith would do the suffering woman good, 
and perhaps prevent her from becoming frenziecl. I 
remember saying to Mrs. Shepley that morning, 'I 
wish I had time to go and get Mrs. Griffin to come and 
see you to-day ,' and about noon Mrs. Griffin came. It 
is but true to say I did pray that if her coming would do 
good, she might be directed to come; still w T hen she 
stood at my door, I was awed at the immediateness of 
the answer. We went to Mrs. Shepley's room, and I 
said to her, 'This friend will do you good/ and left them 
together. Not long after, I was called to 'Come,' and 
on entering the room saw a bright, happy face in place 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 41 

of gloom and tears, and the diseased arm freed from 
splint and bandage and to all appearance well. No 
sign of swelling, inflammation or suppurating sores, 
but the arm looked like newly healed burns. She moved 
the arm freely in every way, and the same afternoon 
washed a few pieces. The next day in the forenoon 
she did a large washing, did her housework, and in the 
afternoon walked to and from a faith meeting at a 
place a mile or more distant. 

"A. S. Burton." 

"The above statement in regard to my case is true. 
My arm and head are well, and I am happy in the Lord. 

"Mrs. J. A. Shepley." 

When I returned home from this place, where God 
had so wonderfully showed His power, I was filled with 
a quiet, sweet peace, and these words kept singing in 
my soul, "Bless the Lord, O my soul." I could not tell 
where I had seen them. For several days I searched 
to find them, but could not; when again I opened to 
the 103d Psalm, I remembered where I had seen them. 
My soul has blessed the Lord ever since. I think I 
began to realize that the Lord had granted my request 
and bestowed these gifts upon me, and that if He did 
not see fit to heal me instantly, He could heal others 
when He saw it was wise to do so. 

I have been wonderfully guided at times in knowing 
the Lord's will by trying the spirits. 1 John, 4:1: "Be- 
loved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits 
whether they are of God." I give this helpful experi- 
ence because so many of God's dear children really 
desire to do the will of God, but do not know how to 
listen for the Shepherd's guiding voice. If a thought 
comes frequently to my mind I begin to inquire if it is 



42 SOME OP THE FRUITS OP 

of the Lord. I am constantly asking direction for each 
hour and moment of the day, that I may walk in my 
heavenly Father's way, and not in my own. I desire 
to be sure of His guidance; so I ask if the thought is of 
the Lord He will hold it upon my mind, and if it is not, 
that He will remove it. For we are to "bring into cap- 
tivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." 2 Cor. 
10:5. Many times I am directed in this way when 
otherwise I would not know which way to turn. 

When I ask for a token from the Lord I would not 
dare do otherwise than obey, leaving the result with 
Him; not mourning or thinking, perhaps, after all, I 
have made a mistake. This the enemy tries to make 
me think sometimes, but I refer it to Jesus, and it al- 
ways comes out all right. If it is not just the way I 
would have desired it, it is the way Jesus directed. 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 43 



CHAPTER IV. 

THE LEADINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.— (CONTINUED.) 

A few months after my consecration conventions for 
"Divine Healing" were held in different places. I had 
a great desire to attend some of these, as I felt greatly 
in need of all the help and instruction I could receive 
on this subject. I asked the Lord to send me the money 
with which to go, if it were His will. I made all prep- 
arations, so when the money came I should be ready. 
The time came and passed, and no money; but I could 
say, "Thy will be done." Another convention, still 
nearer home. I asked again with the same result. An- 
other was held which seemed especially desirable. This 
time I asked for a certain test to know if it w^ere the 
Lord's will I should go; I had the money. The token 
was not given, and I did not dare to go. I felt greatly 
disappointed, but again could say, "Thy will be done." 

Oh, beloved, it is precious to be in that state where 
we can say from the depths of the soul, "Thy will be 
done," and even when it is directly contrary to our own 
earnest desires. We truly believe we are in the hands 
of the living God, who know^s all things, and what is 
for our best good and His glory. Circumstances proved 
to be such that it might have been a great curse to my 
whole life had my desires been granted. Every time 
I think of this I praise God that I was willing to abide 
by His will. 



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The Lord wonderfully opened up the truths of His 
Word to my mind, until the Bible seemed full of this 
blessed Gospel of Divine Healing, and with it a life "hid 
with Christ in God." These grand truths seemed to 
stand out boldly and clearly as though they were writ- 
ten in words of living fire. These kindled a burning 
love in my soul, which permeated my entire being, and 
so filled me with His strength and glory that I felt if 
I held my peace "the very stones would cry out." I 
told to every one the priceless privileges and blessings 
purchased for us by the blood of Jesus. 

Some time after this, one evening I heard that Mrs. 
M. Baxter, of England, was in Kalamazoo. I instantly 
went to my room to inquire of the Lord if it were His 
will for me to go and hear her. I almost heard Him 
say, Go. I arose, went to the ticket office, purchased 
my ticket and left on the early train next day. I at- 
tended the afternoon and evening meetings, which 
were a "feast of fat things" to my hungry soul. I drank 
in every word and marked every passage and also had 
the privilege of conversing with her. 

On the cars as I returned I opened my Bible and the 
Lord showed me why He had shut me up with Himself. 
Oh, how I felt to praise Him that He had chosen to be 
my instructor. Psalms 32:8. "I will instruct thee in 
the way thou shalt go. I will guide thee with mine 
eye." 

Miss Carrie Judd came to Grand Bapids and con- 
ducted the dedication of our "Beulah Best." As yet, 
these are the only two workers among the Faith people 
I have met. I was enabled to learn most precious les- 
sons from each of these trusting ones. 

I think this was really the time when I began to real- 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 45 

ize the healing" was accomplished in my body. I knew 
the healing was going on all the time, and could claim 
the work done by faith. Jesus said, "It is finished." 
This finished work of the cross was for me, and for my 
body as well as my soul, if I took it. I could believe 
and now felt that He sent his Word and healed me. 
Psalm 107:20. Yes, even me. I learned more than 
this, that when Jesus said, in Matt. 11:28, "Come unto 
me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will 
give you rest," that I might go to Him for physical rest 
when I was weary, and He would give me this also. I 
am naturally of a temperament like Peter's, quick, im- 
pulsive and earnest; not much patience to wait for 
anything I desire. I was not fretful, but my long sick- 
ness had not had the effect of making me more patient 
during delays. So I was obliged to learn these wonder- 
ful and blessed lessons during the waiting time, not- 
withstanding the many dark hours and severe tests I 
was obliged to pass through ; most of the time my mind 
was staid on God, and a deep, sweet peace filled my 
soul. After the darkness was passed I was filled with 
the glory of God, so that I could always praise Him 
for the test and count it as one of the blessings of my 
life. It is not easy to endure trial, but when it is over 
and the joy of the Lord fills the whole being the trial is 
forgotten in the glory. The Lord never fails to send 
His angels to minister unto the tried ones as soon as 
they learn the lessons he would teach them, and the 
darkness is removed. By using me, God has showed 
me that he can use anyone who is really desirous of 
being used for His glory. 

For several years I had dreaded the snow in winter 
and desired never to see it again. I felt disagreeable 



46 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

when it began to fall. I had a good deal of fault to 
find with the weather. Damp air caused rheumatic 
suffering; bright, sunny daj<s hurt my eyes; hot 
weather prostrated me; and really there was very little 
weather that pleased me. In regard to this the Lord 
spoke to me in a very sweet way, and I will give it as I 
noted it clown at the time. 

While I was waiting on the Lord to be relieved of a 
physical burden that was weighing me down, the snow 
fell through the window and rested on iny dark shawl 
in delicate beauty. I saw in each flake a number of 
perfectly formed stars, varying in form and beauty, 
but each one reflecting light. I saw God's hand in 
forming them in all their purity and loveliness, for no 
invention of man could produce anything like them. 
Then I thought, How many of God's dear children think 
little trials, pains and diseases are not worthy His no- 
tice, and yet He forms millions of these little flakes of 
beauty and frailty with such care. "Of how much more 
value are ye?" As I breathed upon them they van- 
ished; so it is with the child of God; when He breathes 
up us, and we receive the Holy Ghost, we have no bur- 
dens, for we cast them upon Jesus, and they disappear. 
Again, I saw how delicate is that tender Spirit, and 
how easily grieved even by the breath of unbelief or 
doubtful thought, act or word. The request of my 
prayer was granted, and I praised the Lord for the few 
moments' delay. The waiting time was not in vain, 
but was spent in learning a sweet, useful lesson. I 
have never found any fault with the weather since. I 
go out in sunshine or in storm and the Lord keeps 
me. I feel that Christians commit a great sin in mur- 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 47 

muring about the weather or anything else God is 
pleased to send us. 

As soon as I had consecrated my all to Jesus I felt I 
must start a faith prayer meeting. I knew of only one 
who would believe and join with me; this was my 
friend, Mrs. Winchester, from Buffalo. She came and 
helped me while she remained in the city. We were 
liable to interruptions, as my home and business were 
in the same house, so a friend living in the extreme 
southeastern part of the city invited us to her house 
for a time. Then the city missionary, Mrs. Burton, 
invited us to meet with her. Quite frequently I was 
the only one there, but Jesus always met with us (Matt. 
18:20), and we were blessed. 

Satan often whispered to me, This is no use; you 
had better give up. After a time, more came in, then 
I began to be frightened, for I was very ignorant of the 
Bible. Although I had been a Christian so long, I 
had neither loved nor understood the Bible as I ought. 
It was always a sealed book to me until I took it for 
both soul and body. When Bible students came into 
the meetings I was almost ready to give up, and dared 
not take my eyes from my book. 

One morning about this time I opened to Jer. 1:6-9. 
I lost sight of Jeremiah, to whom this was spoken, for 
it was now God's own word to me. I have never been 
"afraid of their faces" since, for I know God is with me, 
and now I am holding four full salvation cottage prayer 
meetings a week in the city. Souls and bodies are 
being brought to Jesus continually. Oh, it is precious 
to know T that Jesus never turned any away who truly 
came to him; but He healed them, forgave their sins 
and blessed them. I cannot see how any can come to 



48 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

Jesus for the healing of their bodies without receiving 
a spiritual blessing, if they are Christians; and if they 
are not, without giving their souls to Him, when they 
are healed. "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day 
and forever." 

I was greatly exercised in regard to the command in 
James 5 :14, for I was learning that "obedience is better 
than sacrifice." Accordingly I went to see two of the 
deacons in my church about this matter, and they said 
they did not believe in this, as the day of miracles was 
past. I was now prajdng with several persons, and 
wished to find some one to anoint them, but could find 
no one who believed in this command. About this 
time I had some wonderful lessons taught me. I had 
been greatly annoyed with agents, and had not always 
treated them as well as I ought. 

A lady came in one afternoon with a medical book to 
sell. Of course I did not wish it, but I treated her well, 
and listened to her story for "Jesus' sake," for I was 
now beginning to see the souls of people for whom Jesus 
had shed his precious blood, and realized that perhaps 
I might lead that one to Jesus. I told her I had no use 
for anything of that kind, because I had taken Jesus as 
my physician, medicine and health. She then told me 
of her daughter, twenty-three years of age, who was a 
hopeless cripple. She had diphtheria when she was 
three years old, which settled in her spine and limbs; 
she had always been a great sufferer, and at this time 
her suffering was so great that one could not go into 
her room without increasing her distress. I asked her 
if she would like to have us remember her in prayer. 
She said she would. About two w r eeks after this I 
returned one day from making some calls, and found a 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 49 

young lady in the sitting room who proved to be the 
cripple for whom we had been praying. She was so 
much better that she was able with assistance to swing 
herself on her crutches to my house, a distance of five 
blocks. She said she did not know but that she would 
stay a week. This I did not exactly know how to take, 
as she was a perfect stranger. She staid with me the 
remainder of the day, and late in the evening. I asked 
her if she would like me to pray with her before she 
went back. I did so, and after prayer she was able to 
arise in the name of Jesus and hobble across the room 
and back again without her crutches; she said she had 
never done this before. I then saw T that the Lord had 
sent her to me. I had asked in the morning for some- 
thing to do for Him that day. While I w^as thinking 
whether to say I w^ould walk back with her or ask her 
to stay over night (which w r as not very convenient), this 
came to me, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least 
of these ye have done it unto me." This settled it. I 
said I would be pleased to have her stay, and would 
take her to the meeting with me next day, which I did. 
It w T as with the greatest effort that Mrs. Burton (city 
missionary, at whose home w^e met that day) and I 
could get her up three steps with the help of her 
crutches. Her limbs w^ere drawn back of her, and her 
feet turned out so that the soles of her feet did not touch 
the ground. Her knee and ankle joints were twisted 
and perfectly stiff, and could in nowise be straight- 
ened. Her shoulders were drawn over and the tendons 
contracted so she could not put her hands to her head 
nor back of her. She was so distressed for breath xhat 
as she swung herself on her crutches her face grew r pur- 
ple. She also had a complication of diseases which 



50 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

were healed when we first prayed for her at the faith 
meeting. I wanted some one to anoint her; but could 
find no one to do it. 1 prayed the Lord to open the way, 
and help her to obey the Word. I had ordered some 
books, not knowing what they were, only from their 
titles. In the morning of the day I was to go to her, 
the little book entitled, "Healing of Sickness by Scrip- 
tural Means/' by Karl Andreas, came to me. I had 
prayed much for light on this subject of anointing, and 
this little book gave a description of those who had the 
right on Scriptural grounds to anoint. This showed it 
was those to whom God had given the gifts of Faith, 
Healing and Miracles. These would receive and ex- 
perience the call to this work, the same as the minister 
would experience the call to preach the Gospel, and if 
man-chosen elders of the* church did not believe this 
part of the Gospel (as most of them do not), they surely 
could not use the oil. It came like a flash that the Lord 
had bestowed these gifts upon me, and that I could use 
the oil in His name. I thought I could not; still the 
thought seemed pressed upon me that I was to do it. 
I prayed over it, and asked the Lord if it was His will 
that I should use the oil, to let me remember to get it 
when I went up street ; if not, to take it from my mind. 
When I went, I forgot everything but the oil. I re- 
turned and asked God's blessing upon it, consecrating 
it to Him for this, and no other use. I then went to Miss 
Abbott, telling her all about it. She replied, "I want 
you to use it." I asked the Lord to show His power, if 
it were pleasing to Him for me to anoint. I prayed 
with her and used the oil in His dear name. Immediate- 
ly her joints began to snap and crack, so we could hear 
them all over the room, and the limbs began to 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 51 

straighten, so- that she placed one foot on the stove 
hearth, and crossed the other over it, and said, "I never 
did that before." She also had the free use of her 
arms, and could throw them behind her and above her 
head. This showed me the Lord was pleased to have 
me use the oil. 

Some good Christian people objected to my praying 
with the sick and anointing with oil, because I am a 
woman, forgetting that Jesus received anointing for 
His burial from the hand of a woman, and "that in 
Christ Jesus there is neither male nor female," and 
that it was Jesus, not man, who chose and sent out the 
disciples to "preach the Gospel and heal the sick." Mark 
16:15-20. He chooses and sends out the willing and 
obedient ones to-day as well as then. I praise our dear 
Lord that he honors the labors of consecrated women 
as well as men; and He pours out His spirit upon them 
and calls them the "daughters of the Almighty." There 
were women workers with Jesus and the apostles. I 
have learned that the same word is employed in the 
Greek language in speaking of the "elder women" (1 
Tim. 5:2) that is employed in James 5:14. The Lord 
has honored my labors, obedience and faith in Him 
and His Word by the many wonderful signs which 
have followed; so that I could not doubt my calling 
and acceptance in this work, and the approval of my 
Lord, though the whole world and church should com- 
bine against me. Matt. 18:6-7: "But whoso shall 
offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it 
were better for him that a millstone were hanged about 
his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the 
sea. Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it 
must needs be that offenses come; but woe to the man 



52 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

by whom the offense cometh!" My daily desire and 
prayer is that I may keep low at the feet of my coming 
King, and that I may be so "hid with Christ in God," 
that self will be buried out of sight. I realize very fully 
that "I am not my own." I have been bought with a 
price, even the precious blood of the Son of God. My 
privilege and duty as a Christian is, to have so much 
of the resurrection life of Jesus that it will strengthen 
my entire being, and so quicken my faculties that God 
can work through me mightily to will and to do His 
own good pleasure. 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 53 



CHAPTER V. 

THE LEADINGS OP THE HOLY SPIRIT— (CONCLUDED.) 

God had given me perseverance largely, and I entered 
with my whole being into anything that I was con- 
vinced w r as right and good. I am no less so in my 
Lord's work, and engage in it heartily and persever- 
ingly. 

A friend has sakl that the pocketbook w T as the last 
thing to be consecrated. Too many forget that the 
Lord lets us take His money only to use for Him. This 
was not the case with me. I immediately began to give 
my tenth, feeling that it was right for Christians thus 
to do. I w^as in debt and had hard work to meet my 
daily expenses. The question came, Ought I to give a 
tenth? I asked the Lord about it, and lay aw r ake the 
most of one night with these w r ords ringing in my ears : 
"She of her penury hath cast in all the living she had," 
and our Lord commended her for it. This seemed to 
satisfy me, but many times after, w r hen we had but lit- 
tle to eat, I tried to excuse myself from giving, but 
could not. Mai. 3:10: "Bring ye all the tithes into the 
store-house, that there may be meat in mine house, and 
prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will 
not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out 
a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to re- 
ceive it." This is a free Gospel for soul and body, and 



54 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

no price is charged for anything. I am now living by 
the faith of the "Son of God," for I believe God's 
Word teaches that all workers for Him should so do. 
"Freely ye have received, freely give." This does not 
exempt those who receive the free labors of God's 
children from giving "free will offerings" to them as 
unto the Lord. We read, "The workman is worthy of 
his meat." Matt. 10 :10. Paul often stirs up the Chris- 
tians to be generous in gifts to those who labor for the 
Lord, for their own benefit. He says, "Not because I 
desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your 
account." Phil. 4:17. In verse 18 he speaks of their 
gifts as "an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice well pleas- 
ing to God." I gave all my time and strength, but had 
almost nothing given me. Business was very low and 
things looked pretty dark; still I trusted firmly in 
Jesus, who had bidden me "Go work in His vineyard." 
I knew if He saw fit for me to suffer privation here, He 
would reward me by and by with incorruptible, unfad- 
ing treasures. My whole aim in life is to bring honor 
and glory to His dear name. My heart was filled with 
praise and gratitude, for now T (several months after I 
claimed healing) I was quite strong and well and could 
labor with comparative ease. I had continued all along 
to claim healing, and had read more and more each day 
and evening in the name of Jesus, when it seemed that 
I could not endure the pain and distress caused by the 
light and effort I made. This I told to no one but 
Jesus, and kept believing God's Word until I felt bet- 
ter. I learned many precious lessons of trust and 
patient waiting and faithful perseverance all the way 
throughout this trial of my faith. 

While engaged in my hair business I had spent much 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 55 

time, thought and money in inventions of various kinds. 
I had many of these on hand. Among them were prep- 
arations for the face, both pink and white. At a time 
when my need was very great an order came for quite 
a quantity of the pink. I had just returned from the 
place of one who had given up her house of ill-fame, 
which she had kept for twenty years, and was trying to 
live a better life. I had said to her, "Wash that paint 
off your face, and don't use it again/' and here I was 
selling that which would produce the same effect. The 
thought came to me, How inconsistent! What if she 
should see my name upon this "tint?" There were 
worldly men that I owed; and I needed the money in 
every direction. Here I could get some by filling this 
order, and perhaps close out the whole I had on hand. 
I earnestly cried unto the Lord to know what to do. I 
saw the w^hole thing to be so wrong; and I said, Lord, 
if I starve, or am imprisoned for my debts, I will suffer 
it, rather than scatter seeds of sin any longer. I wrote 
to the parties, telling them why I could not fill the 
order. In about an hour a dear friend called and gave 
me $2.50, and later in the day another gave me $2 more. 
I felt happy because I had done right, even if it did 
mean destruction of some property. All was not yet 
settled; I had not disposed of the white paint. (I 
never called it paint, but I now saw it to be such.) I 
used it myself, and had, ever since I was quite young; 
now came a hard struggle. I argued with the Spirit, 
I have always considered it a part of my toilet; I can- 
not give it up. Still it was pressed upon me that I must 
give up its use and sale. I was enabled to say, Yes, 
Lord, to this, and many other things I was called upon 
to lay aside. And I washed my face, and carried out 



56 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

from niy room and store forever those things which I 
now believe that no true child of God ought to use. 

I believe the Bible says something about painted 
faces, Jer. 4:30, and is it not very important that every 
true seeker of light and godliness should study God's 
Word more about all the little things in our every-day 
life, which have such an effect upon our lives and Chris- 
tian influence, here and hereafter? 

I had another trial, so simple, that for a long time I 
did not mention it, yet it was more of a struggle for me 
to give it up than all my medicines. I had used rose- 
water and glycerine, which would always keep my 
hands soft and white. When the Lord called for that, 
I never dreamed what it would cost me to lay it aside. 
When I did so, my hands chapped, cracked, smarted 
and distressed me so greatly that I cried. Satan whis- 
pered, It is not medicine, and surely you are not called 
to give up everything. I say to my shame that I yielded 
to Satan and used it once or twice more. Then the 
Holy Spirit showed me it was an unnecessary expense. 
Your consecrated hands are to be used in the Lord's 
service; can't you trust Jesus to care for them? The 
money you pay for that will buy a few tracts that may 
save a soul. Isa. 55:2: "Wherefore do ye spend money 
for that which is not bread? and your labor for that 
which satisfleth not?" Satan whispered, You have 
this, use it, and you need not buy any more. Again I 
yielded, put on all I could, and went to the stove to dry 
it in. I got my hand too near and burned it so it blis- 
tered. I now cried tears of penitence, and with great 
shamefacedness I went before niy injured Lord for par- 
don, promising Him that if He would remove the pain 
I would trust Him. The pain and blister were at once 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 57 

removed. My chapped hands still remained in a very 
sore and red condition. It was then I learned that I 
had been proud of my white hands; this I never real- 
ized before. When Satan would say, See how they 
look, I would answer, No matter, they are the Lord's 
hands, and if He likes them well enough to use them for 
His honor and glory, I am satisfied. After nearly a 
year they became smooth again, but never white. 

This is the only time I ever yielded to Satan, in turn- 
ing back to anything God called me to give up, except 
in wearing my glasses, as before mentioned. I had 
borrowed a little of the tenth set apart for the Lord, 
from time to time, to buy daily bread, but always paid 
it back at the first opportunity. One night I was told 
that there was nothing in the house to eat but a little 
oatmeal. I thought I would draw from the tenth 
again, but was led to pray earnestly whether it was 
pleasing to the Lord for me to take this for our food. 
I was His child, giving my whole time going about 
doing good and teaching the Word. The tenth I had 
used mostly in tracts and reading matter that I w T as 
distributing freely in the name of Jesus and asking His 
blessing upon each one. Many times I gave to people 
abundantly able to pay for them, who would not buy, 
but would read them if given to them. I gave to all. 

I thought of one dear sister who lived in luxury and 
had not learned the lessons of self-denial which Chris- 
tians may learn; w^hen I had given her several, still she 
asked for more to distribute, saying that she once 
bought f 5 worth of tracts, and they were not returned 
and she could not buy any more. These things came 
before me this night, and I said, Lord, what shall I do? 
Again these words came to me, the poor widow's two 



58 SOME OP THE FRUITS OP 

mites and our Lord's commendation of her, when He 
said, "All these have of their abundance cast in unto 
the offerings of God, but she of her penury hath cast in 
all the living that she had." Luke 21:4. I felt this 
was to show me that I was to trust Him for food, and 
said, I trust Thee, and fell asleep. Before I was 
dressed the next morning a customer called and made a 
small purchase, giving me twenty-five cents, which I 
used to buy food. My heart was filled with praises to 
God. 

The Lord often finds it necessary to trim us down a 
great deal, before He is pleased to bestow rich bless- 
ings upon us. Yes, He often sees it is best to do this 
even before He can give us the blessing of health. God 
always deals with us wisely. Often, "Ye ask and re- 
ceive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it 
upon your lusts." 

I have a natural love for the beautiful, and it has 
been hard all my life to be satisfied with common 
things. I still think good goods (not extravagant ones) 
are the best economy. I did not care for admiration; 
it was pleasing to me to satisfy my love and taste for 
pretty things. But 1 John 2:16, 17, says, "Love not the 
world, neither the things that are in the world. If any 
man love the world the love of the Father is not in him. 
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and 
the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the 
Father, but of the world." 

Now I found my dear Lord called me to put away all 
my foolish carnal desires, and present unto Him a sanc- 
tified body. In going among the poor and suffering ones 
I was led to see that modest dress, without jewelry, and 
the adornment of a meek and quiet spirit, was more 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 59 

acceptable to God and the people, and I gladly said, Yes, 
Lord, to every call that would better fit me for His 
service. I am not led into extremes, but to let my "mod- 
eration be known." I see the good effects of this 
practice among all classes of people. Many times when 
the poor or more common people are asked to go to the 
house of God they will reply, "Oh, I cannot go, I have 
nothing fit to w r ear. They dress so grand in these 
places, I would not feel at home, and I am not able to 
rent a pew." I feel to cry to the Christian Church, How 
is this state of things to be met at the judgment bar of 
God? 

This was not so when Christ was upon earth. "The 
poor had the Gospel preached unto them," and "the 
common people heard Him gladly." 

I have often seen the wee babies of Christian mothers 
with gold rings and bracelets tied on their little wrists 
and fingers. Thus pride is fostered in their little souls 
from their earliest recollections. Many, many poor 
ruined souls have seen that it was their love of display 
and pride in dress that w^as the means of dragging their 
souls down to the gates of eternal ruin and death. Oh, 
parents, beware how you sow seeds of sin in the hearts 
of your darlings, and then wonder why God does not 
bless you more! 



60 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 



CHAPTEE VI. 

SOME OF THE REASONS WHY ALL ARE NOT HEALED. 

I think the principal reason is the lack of entire con- 
secration, or in other words, the failure on our part to 
make a full surrender of our will and self to the Lord. 
God does not invade the will without our consent, and 
the first thing to give up from our own free choice is our 
will; for it is always God's will to sanctify if we con- 
secrate. In giving up the will, it means more 
than simply to say, I am willing to give up any- 
thing, or be anything or nothing, for Jesus' sake. 
This must be the sentiment of our hearts and 
be brought into practical experience in our daily 
lives, in such a way that we will have the assur- 
ance in our own hearts that God's will concerning our 
life is being carried out in us. Thus He always requires 
us to say, "Thy will, not mine, be done," and to hold to it 
when the test comes. God often calls for the dearest 
idol of the heart, for He is a jealous God, and will show 
us what these idols are, even though we may never 
have been conscious of their presence. God's chosen 
and faithful ones He calls to a life of separation from 
the world in all its rounds of giddy pleasure, fashion 
and carnal self-indulgence, and leads them to conse- 
crate their time, talents, means, home and all to His 
blessed service. The Lord hath need of these. 

Some say, "If I am healed, I will give all to Jesus." 
Beloved, He wants the consecration first. It is not for 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 61 

us to say to God, If you will come to my terms I will 
do for you thus and so, as a reward for your faith- 
fulness. 

Some say, "I will try it." Think of trying God! It 
is for us to make a full surrender, and walk as he calls 
us to walk from day to day, and not fail or become dis- 
couraged if His wisdom sees fit to try and prove us, and 
prepare us to use the blessing when it is given for His 
glory. He sometimes keeps us waiting upon Him w^hat 
seems to us a long time before we receive the desire of 
our hearts in the complete blessing. God is not in a 
hurry to give us blessings we are not prepared to re- 
ceive. And His Word says, "He that believeth doth 
not make haste." Beloved, never do I find so much 
happiness as wiien I sink into the will of the Lord, even 
when it is contrary to my own will; a sweet peace fills 
my entire being, and His will becomes my will. 

Then again, self may be harder to yield than the will 
even. Self says, I cannot endure certain things, they 
affect me so; such a person makes me nervous; I can't 
see them — forgetting that that soul is one for whom 
Jesus died, and perhaps he has something for us to do 
to help just that one. Again, self says, I cannot eat any- 
thing if I cannot have just what I want; and so keep 
some one cooking and worrying to tempt the appetite, 
when perhaps that person is but little better able to do 
this work than the sick one. Dear friend, if you really 
believe that Jesus blesses your food when you ask Him, 
you would have no need of so much precious time, 
strength, labor and money spent for naught. If you 
believe, Jesus will always bless that wilich is good, 
strengthening and nourishing, and He will cause your 
soul to delight itself in fatness if you partake with sin- 



62 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

gleness of heart. For many years I had a distressing 
stomach trouble. This continued in much of its fury for 
a year or so after I claimed healing, but when I was 
willing to deny myself expensive luxuries and really 
believed that Jesus did bless my food, and would "eat 
what was set before me" with a truly thankful heart, 
knowing God's blessing was upon it, I found that it did 
not harm me. There are many sweet secrets to learn. 
Psa. 25:14. 

Many times when the will is crossed, much time is 
spent in self-pity. Indulgence in this is self-love, think- 
ing because one is sick that everything and everyone 
must bend to his desires, while he is constantly watch- 
ing for slights, and is full of sensitiveness, much of 
which in reality is nothing less than selfishness, yet 
wondering why God does not heal and bless him. When 
people are thus occupied, they cannot have their minds 
stayed on God. Oh, let us be purged from self and 
filled with Jesus ! All my life I have been a great suf- 
ferer from an over-sensitive nature. Always imagin- 
ing slights; comparing myself with my superiors, and 
feeling that others were doing the same. I was always 
watching and speaking of my own imperfections which 
others had not discovered, thus drawing attention, and 
burdening others with my self-made troubles. I find 
that the more we talk of our troubles, aches and pains, 
the more they will increase. Though friends may pity, 
after a time they become disgusted. When I laid all 
upon the altar I learned that self must be put out of 
sight, and nothing but Jesus must be seen. I then 
learned to my shame that much of our sensitiveness is 
pure selfishness, and when one is thus occupied there is 
little or no room for Jesus. We should be so filled with 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 63 

Jesus and the Word of God that our "conversation is in 
heaven" and on eternal realities; then we can labor for 
others and strive to bring hungry souls and suffering 
bodies to Jesus for help. I now feel it to be idle words 
to talk of self, only as I am led to tell of the way the 
dear Lord has led me to help others. We are command- 
ed to resist the devil and he will flee from us. Sensitive- 
ness is a neat cloak that Satan often throws about the 
children of God to hide faults which amount to heinous 
sins. Now when I hear a person say, "I am sensitive," 
I think how mortified he would be could he realize that 
it is selfishness. This I really think is the way God 
often looks at it. Jesus said, "If any man will come 
after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross 
daily and follow r me." We never read of Jesus giving 
way to self. 

Again, many withhold from the Lord of their sub- 
stance, forgetting that what w r e have is not our ow^n; it is 
only lent us for a little time to use as the Lord may di- 
rect. What will the account of our stewardship be? 
Have we given so small an amount as one-tenth of all 
we possess? Eead 2 Cor. 9 :6, 7. All should be "free-will 
offerings," for "God loveth a cheerful giver." 

Again, many weary sufferers doctor year after year, 
and are not even relieved of their distresses; yet they 
continue. When they take Jesus as their Physician, if 
they are not healed at once they become discouraged 
and go back to earthly means, and bring a reproach 
upon the precious and all-powerful name of Jesus. 
How sad, that the children of the King of Heaven 
should so fear to trust Him with their bodies which 
He has bought with His own blood. Will He hold His 
people guiltless for this great neglect, who fear to trust 



64 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

their bodies in the hands of their Creator for repairs 
and health? He is our physical life, strength and 
health; even as we have eternal life in Him, so we have 
physical life in Him. Why not trust Him alone? O 
let me live and die "by the faith of the Son of God!" 

Again, a great many never get beyond their own 
faith. It is not our faith but His faith. Don't look 
to human faith. The perfect faith, though small as a 
mustard seed, is the faith of Jesus within us. If you 
have not His faith, seek for it; "for everyone that seek- 
eth, findeth." Seeking means more than asking. It 
is a persistent following after the object of search un- 
til it is found. 

Again, a curse is pronounced because "ye serve not 
the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of 
heart for the abundance of all things." 

Many murmur and find fault because the blessing 
does not come. We are told to "Rejoice alway, and 
again I say rejoice." All are born under the curse of 
the law. But "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse 
of the law, being made a curse for us." Gal. 3 :13. 

I believe the human family is allowed to suffer many 
times because of their neglect and cruelty to animals. 
Sometimes the children are permitted to torture their 
pets. Birds are shut up and kept in the scorching heat 
or freezing cold and not properly fed and cared for. 
Horses, the most faithful and useful of all animals, are 
subject to the most cruel treatment. My heart aches 
for the poor beasts that are checked up until their 
heads and whole bodies are thrown into so unnatural 
a position that it is distressing to see them twisting and 
trying to get into an easy position. Then many of 
their blinds are placed so close over the eyes that it is 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 65 

impossible for them to see well where they are travel- 
ing; and cruel bits are placed in their mouths. Can 
any expect to escape suffering here or hereafter who 
cause the faithful dumb brute to suffer thus? In Eze- 
kiel God speaks, saying, "With force and with cruelty 
have ye ruled them," — showing that these things were 
displeasing unto Him. The more we study the Word 
of God, the more we see that it teaches that life is 
made up of the little every-day acts, and we find that 
it is "the little foxes that spoil the vines." 

Again, many people do not seek the glory of God 
alone. This should be the central idea in every Chris- 
tian heart. And one way to glorify God is to present 
our bodies a living sacrifice unto Him in sickness for 
healing. This is well pleasing to Him, according to 
James 5:14, 15. 

To those who look at the way others are healed, ex- 
pecting it to come to them in the same way, and who 
are discouraged if they are not blessed in like manner, 
the blessing may be hindered. We are not made just 
alike, are not converted in just the same way, and 
ought not to look for a blessing in the same way that 
others have received it. We are to lose sight of con- 
ditions, circumstances, people, self and suffering, and 
keep our eyes steadily fixed upon Jesus. The sweet 
singer of Israel says: "I will look to the Lord, from 
whence cometh my help." 

Many sufferers watch the cause and study the effects. 
Jesus does not bless one in this. Occupy yourself with 
your Physician, Jesus; study His promises, and He will 
take care of the causes and effects. 

I not infrequently hear persons say: "If I get well 
I will give largely; but I have paid out so much for 



66 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

doctors and medicines, I do not want to give any : more 
until I am sure of my health." Poor deceived souls! 
what will they say when Jesus comes and they have to 
render an account of how they have supported His 
cause with the means He intrusted to them? How can 
they expect God's blessing? They do not get it, and 
then they charge God with unfaithfulness in fulfilling 
His promises. "Father, forgive them, for they know 
not what they do." Yes, we are dealing with a "living 
God," and everywhere His cause is suffering for lack 
of money. The Faith work in all parts of the land 
needs means to spread the glad tidings of the results 
of "faith in God." The missionaries in all the fields 
need more means. The Lord is calling from every di- 
rection for means. Give unto Him and He will return 
unto you a hundred fold, blessings in every way. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

SOME OF THE REASONS WHY ALL ARE NOT HEALED. 
(CONCLUDED.) 

There are trusting, waiting ones who seem to be 
doing all the Lord requires. Walking in faith, and yet 
they wait and suffer for a long time. To these I would 
say that the Lord's time is not our time, and in your 
sweet, patient trust you are glorifying God and being 
made partakers of Christ's sufferings. Do not be dis- 
couraged and give up your confidence. "For ye have 
need of patience that after ye have done the will of God 
ye might receive the promise." Jesus prayed for Peter 
that his "faith fail not." Oh, take that prayer for your- 
self, and consider that He can show through you His 
keeping power. Even though you seem to grow worse, 
"fear not, only believe." You know not what glory 
may come to the Son of God through your patient faith. 
Through these delays more may hear of your disease, 
conditions, and faith, and will learn of the power of 
God. Though one disease after another, relapse after 
relapse, and test after test come upon you, trust on; 
stand firm; "be strong." The Lord teaches such ones 
wonderful lessons if they will but listen to His gentle 
voice. Oh, beloved, the waiting time, though long and 
weary, is not lost time. 

Again, some cling to little remedies. This shows 
that they have a divided faith. The remark is often 



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made, "I have uo faith in medicine/' yet they cling to 
it with a slight hope of relief and thus their faith is not 
perfect in the power of Jesus. Prayer, according to 
James 5:14, 15, and the laying on of hands in the name 
of the Lord, Mark 16:17, 18, are the means the Lord 
directs His people to use. We bring dishonor upon our 
Lord and His cause and lose a rich spiritual blessing if 
we do otherwise. When Jesus calls me I want to be 
found in faithful service and perfect trust. 

Many lose the blessing because they do not go to 
Jesus with the first symptoms; then, if the blessing is 
withheld, call for the praying ones as they w^ould for a 
physician. Oh, how my heart aches for these dear, dis- 
couraged ones. I can only say to you in the name of 
Jesus, Do not fear, only trust Him. "He knoweth our 
frame, He remembereth that we are dust," and will not 
suffer us to be tempted above that we are able to bear. 

Perhaps most of those who seek Divine Healing are 
those who are past all human help and come with little 
or no expectation of health from the hand of the Divine 
Healer. 

Fear is one of the strongest holds that the enemy can 
get upon the soul. Many fear to tell what the Lord 
has done for them and thus delay or lose the blessing. 
Jesus says, "Ye are my witnesses." And if we neglect 
to give God the glory for the blessings we have already 
received, greater blessings may be withheld. 

Another reason may be because we do not take a 
stand with God against sin. God says, "Curse ye Meroz 
because they came not up to the help of the Lord 
against the Mighty." Eead Deut. 28:16-68. The dis- 
eases there named are common to-day. We are told of 
a case of sickness and death in 1 Cor. 11:27-31. "Be- 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 69 

cause ye eat and drink unworthily, not discerning the 
Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly 
among you, and many sleep." May not this apply to 
deacons who rent buildings for saloons and lewd pur- 
poses, and to those who go from the theater, opera, 
dance, club-house and card table to the Lord's Supper? 

Again "ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss 
that ye may consume it upon your lusts." Some seem 
to have no desire for the glory of God. They wish 
health, that they may enjoy themselves better. Dear 
friends, should we not all more fully realize that health 
is a rich gift from God and should be used for His glory, 
and not to carry out our plans of pride, pleasure and 
worldly living? 

Perhaps there is no greater reason why the blessing 
is delayed than anxiety. The Word says, "Be anxious 
(Ii. Y.) for nothing; but in everything by prayer and 
supplication with thanksgiving make your requests 
known unto God." Eest in the promises of God. If 
these only were given it would be enough. The Bible 
has nearly as many promises for the health of the body 
as for the salvation of the soul. 

Some are mourning over lost blessings. We are 
commanded to "forget the things that are behind and 
press forward to the things that are before." If the 
past is repented of and sins forsaken, it is under the 
blood, and we have nothing to do with it. We live 
moment by moment "by the faith of the Son of God," 
and we must act in the living present, "Christ within 
us the hope of glory." 

Again, the seeking ones fail to reach out and take 
the blessing that their loving Saviour holds out to them 
simply because they cannot see or feel it. Let go of 



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everything and drop into the everlasting arms of the 
Blesser. 

Again, God sees the abusive use that some may 
make of health, even to the loss of the soul, and He 
does not dare trust health with such, for they would 
take it and return not to give God the glory. The 
Word says, "What shall a man give in exchange for 
his soul." Thus we see that God estimates the value 
of the soul more highly than anything else and wisely 
withholds for greater honor to His own name. Be- 
loved, be patient in His dear hand and learn of Him. 

Again, God has often shown me the blessing so near 
it seemed to me that I could and did grasp it for the 
sufferer; yet a lack someway hindered the blessing, and 
God was blamed. Oh, think of this, Jesus has pur- 
chased eternal life and health for you and offers it to 
you with blood-stained hands. Come, consecrate your- 
self to His service and enter upon His work, and jonv 
reward will be great, both here and hereafter. The 
fields are white already to harvest, but the laborers are 
few. Jesus needs you and all He has lent to you. No 
health is so precious as the health you take from His 
hands and use for His glory. 

Some say, "How do I know that it is God's will to 
heal me?" Did you ever stop to consider whether it 
were God's will for you to recover when you were doing 
all you could to get well by earthly means? Think, 
"Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses." 
Matt. 8:17. How can you doubt His willingness to 
heal you, when he has already provided healing for 
your body by His death on the cross, and borne your 
sicknesses. 

Only come into His conditions and the blessing may 



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bo yours. If you are appointed to die, years may be 
added to your life, even as they were to Hezekiak's, in 
answer to prayer. 

The faith to be healed is a sweet, simple trust; so 
simple that perhaps jou do not see or comprehend it. 
Just believe the promise because Jesus says so. With 
the health that we receive direct from Jesus' hands 
comes a spiritual blessing that we can never receive in 
any other way. 

Many are kept from stepping out on the promises 
because of the opinions of others. Sometimes a Chris- 
tian, or even a minister of the Gospel of Jesus, tells 
them "The day of miracles is past." This is a favorite 
expression of those who do not understand the Gospel 
of Healing. If one is not instantly healed, they tell him 
he had "Better use common sense. God made herbs 
for medicine," etc. God's Word says, "I have given 
every green herb for meat." Gen. 1:30. Again, they 
may fear ridicule, or some kind friend may tell them of 
a remedy or physician who will surely help them, and 
the sufferer reaches out to the "arm of flesh." God 
really and truly undertakes for everyone who puts his 
case into His hand, and He bestows the blessing just 
as soon as the soul is prepared to receive and make .good 
use of it. 

One may dishonor God as much in becoming dis- 
couraged and withdrawing his case from His hands 
when he does not receive the blessing in just the time 
and way that he would like, as he would when he gives 
his soul to Him for salvation and does not realize the 
change he expects and turns back to the world. 

Many cannot get beyond feeling. If the bad feelings 
and symptoms are not removed, they watch them in- 



72 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

stead of the promises of God. We need to take the 
same place of faith that Abraham took. "Calling 
those things which be not .as though they were." This 
implies not considering the disease of our body. "Stag- 
gering not at the promise through unbelief, but being 
strong in faith, giving glory to God," even before the 
blessing comes. Do not wait a short time, only, but 
continue waiting until the blessing is realized. We 
have promise of reward and eternal life only as we 
prove steadfast and immovable unto the end, in the 
"full assurance of faith." 

Some think that one who has been healed of the Lord 
will never be sick again. Now T , we have no promise 
that we will never be sick after once healed, any more 
than that we cannot sin after we are once converted. 
God says, "If any man sin, we have an advocate with 
the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous." This rule is 
just as applicable to sickness. When the first symp- 
toms appear, instead of drawing on earthly means for 
relief, we should go to Jesus, who has borne our sick- 
ness, and give it all to Him; then it becomes His, not 
ours; and, when the trial of our faith is perfect, He 
will send relief. The child of God will never be beyond 
Satan's touch in this life, but Jesus is ever near, and 
"He is faithful who has promised who also will do it." 
Praise the Lord! 

Some dear ones who question God's will to heal them 
are spending hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of the 
Lord's dollars (which He needs in His work) trying 
change of climate, and different things, never asking if 
it is God's will; and when they decide to try the 
"prayer of faith," they will send for some of God's 
chosen ones who have given all to His service, and 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 73 

barely pay their traveling expenses, or otherwise go to 
some faith rest and give much less than they would pay 
at other places for board. They then wonder whj a 
rich blessing is not poured out on them. May the Holy 
Spirit bring these truths home to everyone who is deal- 
ing thus with the "living God." He also says, "Inas- 
much as ye have done it unto the least of these, my lit- 
tle ones, ye have done it unto me." 

Again, I hear it said, "I may not recover if I give up 
my doctor and medicines." Dear reader, are you sure 
that these will cure you? And should you thus re- 
cover, could you feel that honor would be brought to 
the name of Jesus alone, and your soul filled with the 
joy that can come only through obedience and love to 
God and His Word? 

The Lord sometimes withholds the blessing that He 
may fit us for His work or lead us to give up something 
that is displeasing to Him. 1 John 3:22: "And what- 
soever we ask we receive of him, because we keep His 
commandments and do those things that are pleasing 
in His sight." 

Our precious Jesus, who has paid the price of His 
own blood to save and heal us, is pleased to have us 
come often and learn of Him, and thus teach us new 
lessons of trust and obedience. 

Many dear tried ones do not understand the wiles of 
the enemy. They do not realize that if they will keep 
close to Jesus "He will bruise Satan under their feet 
shortly." , 

I believe that we should "confess our faults one to 
another," as we are bidden to do in James 5:16, and 
"pray one for another that we may be healed." If the 
churches were open to let the "blind and lame" in for 



74 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

prayer and healing, Matt. 21:14, "and the blind and lame 
came to Him in the temple and He healed them," in- 
stead of for concerts, fairs, suppers, operas, and the- 
atricals, and buying and selling in the temple of God, 
Matt. 21:12-14, and if special meetings were called for 
praj r er for the sick of the church, as they "were gath- 
ered together praying" for Peter's deliverance when 
he was in prison, and the ministers would thus act when 
ill, instead of doctoring a long time, and then going to 
Europe or California for their health, leaving their flock, 
over whom God has made them overseers, to quarrel 
and be dissatisfied upon their return, greater honor 
would be brought to the Lord and more would be 
healed and saved. 

Few are instantly healed, perhaps for some of the 
reasons mentioned. It is no less the Lord's work or in 
answer to prayer if one is gradually healed. Jesus 
did not always heal instantly when He was upon 
earth. The nobleman inquired of his servants the hour 
when his son "began to amend." They replied, "Yester- 
day at the seventh hour the fever left him." "So the 
father knew it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus 
said unto him, Thy son liveth." John 4:52, 53. Also 
the Greek woman who besought Jesus to cast the un- 
clean spirit out of her daughter. Jesus said, "Go thy 
way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. And when 
she was come to her house she found the devil gone 
out, and her daughter laid upon the bed." Had she 
been made "every whit whole," she would not have been 
"laid upon the bed," Mark 7:30, and it must have taken 
some time for the mother to reach her home. Jesus 
did not at once respond to the call of the sisters of 
Lazarus, when he was sick, but "abode two days still 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 75 

in the same place," and when He reached them "he had 
lain in the grave four days already." 

This was that greater glory might be brought to 
Jesus, as with Job, David, Miriam, and Hezekiah, in 2 
Kings 20:5. "Behold, I will heal thee; on the third day 
thou shalt go up into the house of the Lord," and others 
in Bible times were not instantly healed. 

I have given some of the reasons why all are not 
healed; there may be others. 

I have never found such sweetness in any relief as 
that which Jesus gives to me when I come to Him, for 
my body is touched and healed and my soul is filled 
with a sweet peace the world cannot give or take away. 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow. 

Dear weak ones, look to Jesus alone for your physical 
strength when you are faint and w T eary. Let me give 
you a few passages from which to draw strength: Ps. 
46:1, 62:7, 31:24, 27:1, 14, 28:7, 8; Eph. 6:10; Isa. 40:29, 
31, 41:10-13- Phil. 4:13; John 15:5. Christ in us our 
strength. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

"BEULAH." 

From the time of my consecration ana entrance into 
this work I took the first duty that came to hand as 
sent me from Jesus and did it "heartily as unto the 
Lord"; no matter how small or disagreeable it was, I 
did it in the name and strength of Jesus, leaving the 
results with Him and praising Him all the time. As 
the work spread I began to receive letters from persons, 
asking if they might come to me and stay a few days. 
I had no place for these weary suffering ones, and I 
began to ask the dear Lord to provide a place of rest for 
them. I had no means and nothing with wiiieh to 
commence. After much prayer, and seeking to be di- 
rected by the Holy Spirit, I opened the Bible and was 
shown these words, "The silver is mine and the gold 
is mine, saith the Lord of Hosts; the glory of this lat- 
ter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the 
Lord of Hosts; and in this place will I give peace, saith 
the Lord of Hosts." Haggai 2 :8, 9. Also the last clause 
of the third and fourth verses of Hab. 2, "Though it 
tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come; it will 
not tarry. But the just shall live by faith." 

Soon after this I had an opportunity of talking with 
a gentleman acquaintance about buying a home and 
making monthly payments, inquiring if he had a place 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 77 

suitable for my use. A few days later lie called to say 
that lie had a house that I might go and see. I went 
and found it in an unfinished state, and so many neces- 
sary changes to be made before it would be convenient 
for my use that my heart almost failed me. The friend 
with me said, "I don't believe this is where the Lord 
wants you; He has something better for you." I said, 
"We w r ill see what He says," and I opened my Bible, 
which is my constant companion. I prayed the dear 
Lord to guide me through His Word and give me the 
word "take," if he wished me to take this place. I 
opened to Job 38 and the first word my eyes rested 
upon was "take." However, I was not quite satisfied, 
and passed my eyes down the page to verse 20. This I 1 
saw : "That thou shouldst take it to the bounds thereof, 
and that thou shouldst know the paths to the house 
thereof." 

We then met the proprietor and his carpenter and 
told them what changes would be necessary to fit it 
for my use. They said that all I desired could be done, 
and the price would be given me the next day. Now, 
the question arose in my mind, Would the proprietor 
let me have the place if he knew that I had no means, 
but was trusting in God alone to meet the monthly 
payments? Again I asked the dear Lord to show me, 
through His Word, by giving me the word "will." I 
opened the Bible to 1 Cor. 14 :15 : "I will pray with the 
spirit, I will pray with the understanding also; I will 
sing with the spirit, I will sing with the understanding 
also." Here were four "wills" to assure my confidence. 

I then began to feel that it was a great undertaking, 
and wondered if it really was my Heavenly Father's 
will for me to thus venture out on His promises. Matt. 



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6:33: "But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His 
righteousness and all these things shall be added unto 
you." Then I asked Him to show me clearly, beyond a 
doubt, and let me open to some direct words. Matt. 
6:14, "Your Heavenly Father will," was given me. I 
never had any doubt from this time, for all these an- 
swers were like a voice from Heaven to my soul, as the 
words seemed to stand out in living fire. 

I never ask for these tests unless I feel especially' 
directed of the Spirit to do so ; and then I always obey. 
I would not dare to do otherwise. 

After this I became very undecided what to do with 
my business; whether to hold it, or how to dispose of it. 
I had advertised it for sale, but no purchaser came. I 
was dealing in hair goods, and here the Lord showed 
me that this kind of goods was necessary for only a very 
few, and that I was helping to foster a spirit of pride 
and fashion, and that I could not, in my present conse- 
crated life, continue in such work. I had been in this 
business nearly twenty years and had always tried to 
do what was right by all; but at times, when I felt 
something of a spiritual quickening, I had tried hard 
to work into something else. Every effort I made 
proved a failure and a loss. While in this I seemed to 
be quite successful, making our living, even during my 
long years of expensive sickness. After a little time 
the Lord put into the heart of a young lad} 7 , who had 
been with me a number of years, to take the stock and 
sell it on commission, which is very low, and the goods 
yet remain unsold, and some bills are still unpaid 
which were standing against me before leaving the 
business. This is quite a trial of my faith, as I greatly 
desire to obey the injunction, "Owe no man anything." 



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It did seem to me that it would bring greater honor to 
my Lord for me to be able to pay these worldly persons 
whom I owe, for they know that I am trusting in the 
"living God." 1 have had to learn the same lesson in 
this as in all other things. That is, after I have done 
all I can to obey God, then I leave it with Him. 

Arrangements were made for the place and work 
commenced. Soon after I asked the Lord for a name 
for the place. One bright Sunday morning, just after 
prayers, I opened the Bible to Isa. 62:4: "But thou 
shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah, for the 
Lord delighteth in thee." The Lord showed me that 
"Beulah" was the name, and oh, how I praise Him for 
giving me such a beautiful name. 

I consecrated this "Beulah" rest to the Lord, and my 
constant prayer has been that none would come unless 
the Lord sent them, and none go away without a bless- 
ing. I prayed also that the sanctifying presence of 
God might so overshadow us that those who entered 
might realize the hallowed atmosphere and feel to ex- 
claim: "How holy is this place! This is none other 
than the house of God and the very gate of Heaven." 
And such it has proven to nearly all who enter. We 
receive all in the name of Jesus, feeling God has sent 
them for some blessing. 

Some have been healed at the door, before entering 
the house. These, however, were expected and had 
been prayed for, that the Lord might meet them here. 
All praise to His name! 

We moved into "Beulah" January 13, 1887. I did 
not have enough money to pay for moving. I had given 
my entire time for over a year to holding meetings and 
visiting the sick, but very little money had been given 



80 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

me. People seemed to think that as no price was 
charged, they had no duty to perform in this matter. 
Many times I walked miles, for the want of five cents to 
pay my carfare. This I did cheerfully, praising my 
Lord for the privilege of laboring for Him in any way. 
I was so happy to carry the glad news to the suffering 
ones that Jesus had "borne their sicknesses" as well as 
their sins. Many were led to give soul and body to 
Him and come out rejoicing in the atoning merits of 
His all-redeeming blood. Were not money a necessity 
I would never think of it, for the joy that fills my soul as 
I go forth in the name and strength of Jesus from duty 
to duty. Oh, the foretaste of Heaven that fills my soul 
at times! I pit} 7 those who labor only for that which 
perishes, "For all these things do the nations of the 
world seek after. Provide yourself bags which wax not 
old, a treasure in the Heavens that faileth not. For 
where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." 
Luke 12:30, 33, 34. "Wherefore do ye spend money for 
that which is not bread? and your labor for that which 
satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, Eat ye that 
which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fat- 
ness." Isa. 55:2. 

"Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do 
all for the glory of God." 

"For whatsoever is not of faith is sin." 
I realized that I must have money to buy food and all 
the necessary things of life, and the dear Lord says, I 
will supply your needs according to my riches in glory. 
He generally makes use of human instruments, so that 
blessing may come upon them also, for He says, "It is 
more blessed to give than to receive." Oh, that God's 
true people might believe this with their hearts and 



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make it a principle of their lives. Then lie would pour 
them out a blessing that they could not contain, but 
would flow out and refresh and gladden the hearts of 
those about them, while they would be laying up treas- 
ures in Heaven. Dearly beloved, these are the only 
treasures that will shine throughout eternity. 

Some dear friends who were interested in the work 
gave me some money and assisted me to move. The 
dedication of "Beulak" was appointed for February 
10th. I had not nearly enough furniture for the house. 
No carpets for the chapel, sitting-room or front hall. 
However, the day before the dedication the dear Lord 
sent me, by a beloved friend, pretty new carpets for 
these rooms, and many other articles of furniture. In- 
deed, every room speaks of her tender love for the work, 
and as I pass from room to room many a "God bless 
her" comes from my heart. 

Others sent some articles, and still some rooms were 
empty and many things needed. I praised God for 
what He had done, and waited upon Him for all my 
needs. (The house is now comfortably furnished.) 
Three days before the dedication I had a wonderful 
demonstration of God's power. The oil was out, and 
there was but little in the lamps. We were working 
early and late to get the house in order as best we 
could for the dedication. We had no money, and it 
was proposed that we borrow some to buy oil. I said, 
"No, this house must not go in debt to run it." Some 
one said, "What will you do?" I said, "Trust the Lord 
to send money." 

"But what will you do if it does not come?" 

"I will sit in the dark and praise Him." 

"But we have much work to do." 



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My answer was, "The Lord is able to increase onr oil 
as He did the widow's." 

Nothing was sent in or given me, although I was sent 
for to visit the sick several times during these three 
days. 

Evening came, the lamps were lighted as usual, and 
burned quite late. Next morning the girl said, "There 
is as much oil as there was yesterday." I looked, and 
there surely was. Evening came, the lamps were 
lighted again and used as before with the same result. 
The next day being dedication, again the question was 
asked, "What shall we do for oil for the lamps?" I 
said, "The Lord will provide." About noon fifty cents 
was given me. and the thought came, That is money 
for oil. 

Although the day was stormy, the house was filled 
both afternoon and evening, and we had a precious 
time waiting on God. Miss Carrie Judd, of Buffalo, 
conducted the services. 

This hymn was prepared for the dedication: 

BEULAH. 

Dedication Hymn, Grand Rapids, Mich., February 10, 1887. 
Transposed for the occasion by F. L. Childs. 

Our Beulah is open, the angel has come, 

The spirit is calling for thee; 
The sick are in trouble, but here there is room, 

Our Beulah is open and free. 

CHORUS. 

Salvation is free, Salvation is free, 

Salvation through Jesus is free; 
The sick are in trouble, but here there is room, 

Our Beulah is open for thee. 



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Come, weary and wretched, for Jesus is here, 

Accept of a cleansing complete; 
Oh, hear the entreaty dismissing your fear, 

Have faith in the One you entreat. 
Chorus: 

The home we call Beulah we trust we can fill; 

Its arms are extended in love; 
We open the doorway to all who are ill, 

But trust in the Healer above. 
Chorus: 

Then come to our Beulah, ye needy and lost, 
Come where these rich blessings are found; 

Give up your bad habits, at whatever cost; 
Let Christ's love within you abound. 
Chorus: 



The next morning we had a very sweet season of 
prayer and anointing. Among the number who re- 
ceived the anointing were two M. E. ministers. 

There have been many genuine converts, who are 
now good working Christians, rejoicing in the Lord 
and working for the salvation of others. This is a 
marked feature of this work, that those who give soul 
and body to Jesus are so blessed that they seek to bring 
others to Him; and all Christians who consecrate their 
bodies to be healed, cleansed and fitted for the indwell- 
ing of the Holy Spirit, receive such a spiritual quicken- 
ing that they go and do likewise. I am often asked how 
I pay for the place. Fifteen dollars was given me by 
one of the converts, and by great self-denial I was en- 
abled to lay aside ten dollars more, so I paid twenty- 
five dollars before I moved in. Several years before 
this I had taken in trade a number of diamonds, think- 
ing it a very good investment. Just before my conse- 
cration I sent them to be set. I had a fondness for nice 



84 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

things, and quite a passion for finger rings. I had the 
ring made first and wore it a few times. The pin and 
ear-rings came just after my consecration. I gave 
them all to the Lord and placed them in the bank for 
safe-keeping until the Lord called for them, hoping 
that they might go into a home for Him, and they did. 

A sister, who was seeking for the true way, had been 
led into Metaphysics. She was not satisfied, for she 
saw the God of the Bible to be a living, personal God. 
The God she loved and worshiped was more than a 
principle, as they teach. A Methodist minister direct- 
ed her to come and see me. She did so, and was soon 
convinced that this was the true Bible way. She ac- 
cepted Jesus as a complete Saviour from all sin and 
sickness, received the anointing and was greatly 
blessed. She at once consecrated herself to the service 
of God, and gave me the fifty dollars that she was to 
pay for the first lectures in this so-called Christian 
Science. 1 Tim. 6:20, 21. The contract was drawn up, 
and I am to pay $2,750 for the property. Taking out 
the amount paid, $2,510 is left to be paid as the Lord 
may send me the means. I have been enabled thus far 
to make the small payment of fifteen dollars each 
month. This is less than fifty cents each month on the 
principal over the seven per cent, interest. The con- 
tractor has kindly offered to credit me with one hun- 
dred dollars for every ninety-dollar payment I can make 
at one time. I trust and pray the dear Lord may soon 
undertake for this branch of His work that we may be 
able to give Him a clear deed of His own property. 

I have no collections and no price for my services. I 
believe that all should be "free will offerings" as unto 
the Lord. I can trust Him to move the hearts of the 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 85 

people, in answer to prayer, to make "free will offer- 
ings" to carry forward this His own work. I always feel 
great gratitude to Him and every instrument He uses in 
helping us, and praise Him for much or little. I try to 
speak of my needs only to Jesus, and He answers in 
wonderful and most unexpected ways. My earnest 
prayer is that heaven's richest blessing may rest upon 
every contributor. 



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CHAPTER IX. 

"BEULAH."— (CONCLUDED.) 

This month He saw fit to test my faith in regard to 
the payment by letting it run two weeks past due. I 
was daily asking for the money and expecting it. One 
who had been greatly blessed in coming to "Beulah," 
and had been led of the Lord to do much for the work 
here, wrote me, asking how the finances were. She 
thought that she had a right to know, as she felt she 
was a part of "Beulah." I replied that the Lord had 
met all our daily needs and monthly payments until 
the present month, and that I was looking daily to Him 
for this. 

To this came the following immediate answer: 
"About five weeks ago an insurance policy expired, 
which I thought to renew, at a cost of $37.50. The 
Holy Spirit whispered this question to me: How would 
you like to insure with the Company of Heaven? Now, 
there is my servant Dora at 'Beulah'; you know she is 
all the time looking to Me to supply her needs, and I 
am using her time and work in my vineyard. I have 
got to provide her monthly payment now, and if you 
will insure with me, and trust in me with the same feel- 
ing of safety that you have in the Phoenix Company, 
here is a chance, and you may use that $37.50 as I may 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 87 

direct. First you may send f 15 to 'Beulah' to make 
the payment for this month. I said, I believe I can do 
that and trust Thee to make the insurance safe and 
the investment good. But I am ashamed to say that I 
asked the Lord if He would not allow me to use the 
money until after the first of the next month, as I had 
a large payment to meet at that time, and then I would 
do as He signified. But if He really did want me to 
send it now to make it very plain. Then your letter 
came, saying that you were expecting the dear Lord 
to send you the money every clay. This was as plain 
as I needed, as you never answered me this question 
before. Now here I have been holding the Lord's 
money, so you see that He had planned all this for you 
in the proper time for it to be paid. 

"Again I said, How can I send it just now when I have 
all this money to raise so soon? The answer came, 
Can't you trust me to give you enough to make it up? 
Have you not said that your money, time, strength and 
all were consecrated to me? Yes, Lord, I have said it. 
Have I not always cared for you, paid your bills when 
they were due, and opened the way many times when 
it looked so dark? Yes, Lord, and I will send it right 
off this morning to your servant Dora, and to the other 
place where they are praying and waiting for it, and 
trust Thee to open the windows of heaven and pour me 
out a blessing. As I took up my Bible I said, Lord, I 
do believe that this is what you would have me do. 
Xow give me some word from Thee, on which my eyes 
shall first rest guided by thy Holy Spirit, that shall 
assure my heart that this is Thy will, and, oh, as I 
opened to Matt. 28:7, just see what the voice from 
heaven said to me: 'And go quickly; lo! I have told 



88 SOME OP THE FRUITS OF 

you before.' One might look all day in the Bible for 
a more direct answer without finding it plainer. 

"Now I have written you all this to encourage your 
heart to trust in the 'living God.' So you can see as 
well as I just how T the Lord does operate to answer 
prayer for His faithful people, and how He was all the 
time getting the money ready for you. It is just as 
good for me as for you to see all this, and I just burst 
out in praises to our God, while rivers of water ran 
down my cheeks to think that the Lord does make the 
way so plain for His people because they trust in Him. 
So here is the draft and here is the story, and I tell it 
to you because I know it will comfort you." 

I will never be able to express the unspeakable joy I 
feel in living a life of trust. My faith is never tried 
without having a wonderful revelation of the glory and 
peace of Jesus, after the severity of the test is passed. 
In each trial I am shown my ow T n nothingness and many 
faults, and also get a view of the great and Holy One 
who enables me to overcome. In James 1:2, 3, we are 
told to "count it all joy w^hen ye fall into divers tempta- 
tions, knowing this that the trying of your faith work- 
eth patience." It is a great comfort to know that noth- 
ing can come to me unless permitted by my Heavenly 
Father; so it must be for my good. 

For several weeks after coming to "Beulah" every- 
thing ran low; at times we hardly had enough from 
meal to meal, but never suffered. It kept me coming 
to my Lord continually for the supply of our daily ne- 
cessities. I was so short of help that I had to spend 
more time at work about the place than I ought, and I 
was led to cry mightily unto God for help. I arose 
from my knees and opened the Bible, and this was given 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 89 

me, Ezek. 36:11, 29, 37: "I will multiply upon you man 
and beast, and I will do better unto you than at your 
beginnings, and ye shall know that I am the Lord." "I 
will also save you from all your uncleanness, and I will 
call for the corn and will increase it, and lay no famine 
upon you." "I will yet for this be inquired of.' 

I took my Lord's Word for myself, and have been 
greatly delivered in every time of need. Sometimes 
when the house is full of guests we get almost out of 
daily food, but before the real need comes we are pro- 
vided for. 

After we had been in "Beulah" but a short time a 
gentleman came who had cancer of the stomach. He 
was able to sit up part of the time, but continued to fail 
rapidly, and was soon taken with black vomit; he 
lived about five weeks. From the first he had no real 
desire to live; he was prepared to die, yet said he was 
willing to Live if it was God's will, but he never reached 
out after life. In answer to prayer, He was wonder- 
fully kept from the distress which usually attends that 
disease; we had many and remarkable answers to 
prayer for his relief, so that very often before the prayer 
was ended he would fall into a sweet, restful sleep, and 
at the end of five weeks he fell asleep in Jesus. 

From a human standpoint this was a great mystery 
and very discouraging. Why God permitted this to 
occur at the opening of the home, and almost the first 
one who came, we could not understand. The many 
assurances given me all through his sickness I took as 
tokens of his restoration. This for a time greatly per- 
plexed me. When I came quietly before the Lord to 
inquire of His dealings with me I was shown many 
lessons; He had given me these assurances to enable me 



90 SOME OP THE FRUITS OP 

to hold the promises in faith for the blessing of relief, 
which was not a small blessing. He was undoubtedly 
appointed to die, and the Lord had sent Him here for 
many reasons. One was to test me. I was not discour- 
aged, for I knew that if our Lord did not see fit to raise 
him to health in answer to such prayers as were offered 
for him, nothing would save him. The post mortem 
showed that no human skill could have reached his 
case. His friends were all satisfied. Even in this trial 
I could praise the Lord. I felt that the constant prayer 
had brought me into a secret place with the Lord 
which I had not known before. 

The work is constantly going on for both soul and 
body. I am able to reach many souls that I could not 
approach were it not for the Gospel of Healing. Faith 
prayer meetings and Bible readings are held at "Beu- 
lah" every Thursday at 2:30 p. m. Bequests can be sent 
at any time and will be presented for prayer at once; 
also at the first meeting after receipt. In correspond- 
ence, please enclose stamps. All letters will be an- 
swered as soon as possible. Delays are, by lack of post- 
age, sometimes occasioned when I am out of town hold- 
ing meetings, visiting the sick, or have a pressure of 
work. I feel that answering these letters is part of the 
work my Lord has given me to do, and through this 
channel souls are born into the Kingdom, and bodies 
healed. 

"Beulah" is a quiet home, with "Jesus in the midst/' 
where the weary, sick, tried, unsaved ones may come 
for a time and learn more perfectly the way of faith. 

Guests will please communicate with me before com- 
ing and state whether they are able to wait upon them- 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 91 

selves. If they are not, it will be necessary for them 
to bring an attendant. 

Those who may desire me to go out of town to hold 
meetings or visit the sick will please send money for 
expenses. 

"Beulah" stands on a nice elevation of ground where 
the air is pure and clear. My room joins my dear aged 
auntie's, who is my adopted mother, and all I am I owe 
to her, under God. As I look out of my window upon 
the eastern sky I feel to praise God that my lines have 
fallen in such pleasant places, and often wonder if from 
this beautiful retired elevation I may be permitted to 
behold Jesus coming in the clouds of heaven. I am 
looking for Him, and my constant prayer is that my 
lamp may be trimmed and burning, with oil in my ves- 
sel, when He comes. 

"Watch, therefore, for ye know not what hour your 
Lord doth come." Matt. 24:42. 



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CHAPTEB X. 

SPIRITUAL GIFTS. 

Now often I hear it said, "The day of miracles is past." 
Now who said this? Certainly not Jesus, nor His be- 
lieving disciples, nor His Word. Jesus knew when He 
gave His last commission that nothing would convince 
an unbelieving world so thoroughly as the power He 
gave to His people to do signs and wonders in His 
name. Then again He designed that His redeemed 
sons and daughters should be delivered from the bond- 
age of Satan through faith in His name. Mark 16 :15-18. 

Our Lord's last words to His disciples were: "Go ye 
into all the world and preach the Gospel to every crea- 
ture," etc. 

We know the Christian Church accepts this gospel of 
salvation, but rejects what follows, i. e., the Gospel of 
Healing and gifts of the Spirit. Jesus says in verse 17, 
"These signs shall follow them that believe." This 
does not look as though these signs were to follow only 
the Apostles, for Jesus says, "them that believe." If 
you believe that, the signs will follow you, if you use 
your privilege. Ah, dearly beloved, "we are not debt- 
ors to the flesh to live after the flesh," the unbelieving 
maxims of this world or the traditions of men. We are 
not governed and controlled by natural laws entirely. 
It is necessary for us to rise superior to our surround- 
ings, ourselves and all natural law, to assert our liberty 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 93 

in Christ Jesus. Jesus makes this remarkable state- 
ment in verse 18, "In my name shall they cast out 
devils." This is not only our privilege but our duty, 
and God gives this power when the conditions are met 
and we accept His power and use it for His glory. 
"They shall speak with new tongues." How true this is 
when one ceases to talk of himself, of his aches and 
pains and troubles, of one's own shortcomings or vir- 
tues, and all the works of the devil; and tells of the 
wonderful power of Jesus instead. "They shall take up 
serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing it shall 
not hurt them." We believe that God will show His 
power in protecting His believing children. "They shall 
lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." This is 
the foundation text for God's faithful ones to base their 
faith upon in being used as God's ministers in the heal- 
ing of the body. What an exalted privilege God's 
children have of using the pow T er of Jesus' name above 
and against all human means for the relief of the suf- 
fering ones. Had Vanderbilt, Gould or Astor given 
you the privilege to use their names to draw on the 
bank for all the money you wished, how quickly you 
would avail yourself of this opportunity in every time 
of need. Now here is one who holdeth the wealth of 
the world in His hands; and He will not only give us 
spiritual, but temporal and physical blessings; for all 
power is His, not only in Heaven, but in earth. Now 
He offers you freely the use of His all-powerful name. 
In Jesus' name we may cast the devils out of our own 
souls and bodies, and we can also lay the name of Jesus 
upon any afflicted part, with blessed results. 

I often wonder how far God will hold us guiltless for 
not using these blood-bought privileges; for this was 



94 SOME OP THE FRUITS OF 

the last commission and promise that Jesus gave before 
His ascension to His Church and Bride, those to whom 
He expected to show forth His power on earth. 

"And they went forth and preached everywhere, the 
Lord working with them and confirming the Word with 
signs." He works to-day with His believing ones the 
same. Oh, my fellow-laborers in the Lord, our duty is 
to live where we can have liberty in declaring the whole 
Gospel in power and demonstration of the Spirit. 

In 1 Cor. 12, Paul reminds the Church of its incom- 
pleteness without these various spiritual gifts, even as 
the human body is incomplete without all its various 
members. Among the gifts named are "faith," "work- 
ing of miracles" and "gifts of healing." Please read the 
whole chapter. 

Paul says, "Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, 
I would not have you ignorant." In verses 28, 29 and 30 
he plainly states that all have not the same gifts. Now 
I understand that the possession of these gifts differs 
from the privilege of all believers in claiming the prom- 
ises as given in Mark 16. These are special gifts "divided 
to every man severally as He wills." I understand that 
those to whom these gifts are given are the ones who 
may use the oil, "in the name of the Lord," as spoken of 
in James 5:14, whether they are ministers or not. 
Please read Eph. 4:11-16. In verses 11 and 12 other 
gifts are spoken of; 13th, "Till we all come in the unity 
of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto 
a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the 
fullness of Christ." 

The Church cannot be a perfect body to-day without 
all these gifts any more that it could then. We need all 
there is in the Gospel to keep us from "being carried 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 95 

about with every wind of doctrine and cunning crafti- 
ness whereby they lie in wait to deceive us;" for these 
are the times of "deceivableness." Truly, "perilous 
times are come" upon the Church of God; and every 
true child of God has great need of applying himself 
diligently to the study and daily practice of the grand 
fundamental doctrines of Christianity, the fourfold 
Gospel of Christ. These are Justification, Sanctifica- 
tion, Divine Healing and the Second Coming of Christ. 

In 1 Cor. 13:9, 10, Paul says, "For we know in part 
and we prophesy in part, but when that which is perfect 
is come, that which is in part shall be done away." Here 
we are told that spritual gifts will be done away when 
Jesus, "that which is perfect, is come." In chapter 
13:2, "Charity" (or Divine Love) is spoken of as the 
greatest of all gifts. Love will go on throughout the 
ceaseless ages of eternity. I realize more and more 
how much divine love the Christian needs to do good 
work for Jesus; more love to God and for all those 
about us; the love of God, not merely human love; filled 
with Jesus and His love. It is easy then to work for 
others, doing all in the name of Jesus. 

In 1 Cor. 14:1, Paul tells the Church to "follow after 
charity, and desire spiritual gifts." This does not read 
much like the oft-repeated adage, "Miracles ceased with 
the apostolic age." 

The only object one should have in seeking for spir- 
itual gifts is to advance the cause of Christ, hasten His 
coming and bring honor to His name by leading the 
sufferers to Him for relief, not for our own honor or 
profit. We need to try the spirits to see if they be of 
God. 

In Acts 20 :28-30, Paul warns the Church, which Jesus 



96 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

has purchased with His own blood, "to be watchful, for 
there shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not 
sparing the flock, also of your own selves shall men 
arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples 
after them." 

Matt. 24:24: "For there shall arise false Christs and 
false prophets and shall show great wonders; insomuch 
that if it w T ere possible they shall deceive the very elect." 
2 Thess. 2 :3 : "There will come a falling away" before 
Jesus comes. In verses 8-11, Satan is spoken of as 
being "revealed with all power and signs and lying 
wonders in them that receive not the love of the truth, 
and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion." 
In 1 Tim. 6:20, 21, Paul says to Timothy, "Keep that 
which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and 
vain babblings and oppositions of science, falsely so- 
called, wiiich some professing have erred concerning 
the faith." 1 Tim. 4:1: "Now the Spirit speaketh ex- 
pressly that in the latter times some shall depart from 
the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines 
of devils." 

Oh, beloved, let us be among that number that "hold 
faith and a good conscience, which some having put 
away concerning faith, have made shipwreck." I have 
been shown no way so true, so sure, as the way of the 
cross through the precious blood of Jesus. My spirit 
does not answer to any doctrine that has less of self- 
denial, less of the cleansing blood of the atonement of 
Christ. This is the way the Word of God teaches. 

My soul's constant cry is, that my Father will keep 
me under the cleansing, healing, saving and sanctifying 
blood of Jesus. Amen. 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 97 



CHAPTER XI. 

NEW EXPERIENCES. 

Eight and one-half years have passed since our Beu- 
lah Home was dedicated to the service of the living 
God, and ten years since I consecrated myself to Him. 

Not one drop of medicine of any kind has touched my 
body externally or internally in all these years. 

Oh, the blessedness of such trust and the sweetness 
of the precious life of Jesus, in spirit, soul and body 
instead, is indescribable. The rest, joy, and peace that 
possess one, even when sickness is permitted to come, 
and the sweet remedy prayer, the soul touch, and the 
victories through the closer contact with Jesus, the 
quickening of the Holy Ghost, and the strength which 
comes with every victory won can be better realized 
than told. 

Many times there has been much to discourage strong 
hearts; however I have been kept from sinking; I have 
never for a moment yielded to discouragement, and 
have praised God in and for all. 

I feel that it will be for His glory to give some of the 
experiences our blessed Jesus has permitted to touch 
our lives in these glorious years of sweet service, trial 
and victory. 

Of this we are sure: Nothing can touch the life of 
one of God's anointed except by His permission, and as 



98 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

His Word declares, "No good thing will He withhold 
from them that walk uprightly." All that comes and 
all that is withheld must be good for that time, at least. 
During these years we have entertained hundreds of 
guests, traveled thousands of miles in answer to calls, 
answered many thousand letters, held hundreds of 
meetings with the blessed, saving, sanctifying and heal- 
ing power of God upon many, besides giving Bible read- 
ings to all who come to "Beulah." 

We have seen hundreds healed, and all manner of 
diseases, including broken bones and dislocated joints 
— the bones coming into place without human touch 
by the power of God alone in answer to prayer, show- 
ing us that it is very easy for Him who has made the 
bones of the human body to put them in place when 
out, and to mend them when broken, if fully trusted 
to do so. 

We regret that we do not know the addresses of some 
of those who have been niiraculousty and instantly 
healed of cancers, tumors, and paralysis, but will relate 
a few incidents of such cases that are fresh in memory. 

One lady for whom w^e had prayed was advised by 
physicians in Chicago, where she had been for treat- 
ment, to return home and arrange any matters she 
might desire before they operated upon her for cancer- 
ous tumor. She was induced to come here before re- 
turning to Chicago. Upon her arrival while passing 
through the hall she was converted and healed, and was 
well the last w^e heard. 

An old lady came in great pain. While coming up 
the walk to the house the pain left, and the Holy Spirit 
filled her. As we met her at the door she exclaimed: 
"Truly this is holy ground." 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 99 

One evening an old gentleman, dragging his right 
foot and with his hand hanging helpless by his side, 
called, asking for prayers. Perceiving that he "had 
faith to be healed" Mr. Dudley and I anointed him in the 
name of the Lord and prayed with him. He began prais- 
ing God for the healing, and arose, leaping for joy. 
He went out of the house like a bounding youth, filled 
with the life of Jesus. The next day he went at his 
carpenter w^ork, climbing about and using his saw and 
hammer as well as ever. We have never seen or heard 
from him since. 

Another gentleman came whose right side was par- 
tially paralyzed; he had no power to hold anything in 
his hand. Mr. Dudley and I prayed with and anointed 
him in the name of the Lord; before we could give him 
a pencil he had taken his own from his pocket and bold- 
ly written his name and walked away, rejoicing in the 
strength of the Lord. 

A lady who had a painful sore upon her breast, which 
had begun to discharge, came to us after the doctors 
had pronounced it cancer and said it should be taken 
off at once. After she had been here a few days and 
received Bible instruction, while we were praying with 
her, she experienced a strange sensation in the af- 
flicted part, that extended in streaks to her chin, under 
her arm, and wherever the pain had been. 

It was healed at once; the next day the scab came 
off, and there was no appearance of the disease save a 
little redness, which soon passed away. 

Many more have come into lives of consecration. 

Some who have thus found Jesus at "Beulah" are 
now in foreign lands winning souls for their beloved 
Redeemer. Others have been called to the better world, 



100 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

where they behold the face of Him they love, and join 
in the great redemption song. 

Colonel and Mrs. Campbell, of the Christian Cru- 
saders, and many of the bands in our own and other 
States, have accepted the faith of the four-fold gospel 
through our teaching, and are living and teaching these 
precious truths, with blessed results in their own and 
other lives. 

We feel that if this alone were all that had been 
accomplished "Beulah" has not been opened in vain. 



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CHAPTER XII. 

PHYSICAL TESTS. 

A few years ago Mr. Dudley and I were called to 
Lansing, where some persons were healed. 

I much desired to visit a dear friend at the college, 
and made quite an effort to do so, without realizing 
that I had not carefully consulted my Lord whom I had 
promised to follow. 

Arriving just as my friend was leaving for a journey, 
I immediately returned; a chilly rain set in, I was not 
prepared for the long drive and was thoroughly chilled, 
and remained cold all night, and was conscious of much 
pain; I said nothing about it, and after breakfast we 
started for home. I continued to grow worse. 

Upon reaching home I found many letters awaiting 
me, among them a call from the Rev. Mr. Kellogg, pas- 
tor of a Congregational Church in Muskegon, asking 
my assistance in watchnight services. I was too ill to 
realize what it meant, but said, "I must sleep before I 
can do anything," and slept the remainder of the day, a 
painful, broken sleep. At night I found myself unable 
to undress alone and in great suffering, retching and 
vomiting very severely. While my dear husband was 
holding my head, my aged auntie came into the room 
saying, "I will bring some hot w T ater to settle your 
stomach." I could not speak, but breathed my soul 



102 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

thought to God, that I would not touch even water as 
a remedy, but would trust Him if I died. When she 
returned with the water I was lying upon the pillow, 
and could speak, and said, "Auntie, I would die before 
I would take anything to settle my stomach. If the 
Lord does not settle it, it will never be settled/' I be- 
lieve, had I taken the water, I should have lost my faith, 
perhaps my life. 

Through the night I had broken sleep, was full of 
pain, with burning fever, but in all blessedly conscious 
of the everlasting arms underneath me. 

The next morning, the last of the year, Mr. Dudley 
anointed me, and we claimed the promise. The pres- 
sure upon my heart and lungs was very great, so that I 
had no power to rise from my bed. 

New Year's Eve a voice spoke to my heart, saying, 
"Are you a child of God?" I answered emphatically, 
"Yes, I am." The voice again said, "What are you here 
for, under Satan's power, when you ought this very hour 
to be telling lost souls of a Savior?" A great horror 
seized me with this thought — some one may be lost 
because you are not there to give the message the Lord 
would have you give. I cried, "Lord, why am I here, 
please tell me?" The grieved voice whispered, "Did 
you not run on one of your own errands, unnecessarily 
exposing yourself, when you had promised to go only 
on mine?" "I see, I see; Lord, forgive me." 

I realized that I was on the very verge of the grave; 
that Satan was trying to clip the thread that held my 
life, but he could not quite reach it. 

He told me repeatedly, "You will die;" but I was 
assured this was one of his false assertions, and that I 
should not die, but live. 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 103 

The diseases proved to be la grippe and pneumonia. 
The third day was the regular meeting day at "Beulah." 
In the morning friends prayed that I might be able to 
attend. 

The pressure upon my chest was so great that I 
could not breathe when raised up, but in the afternoon, 
in the name and strength of Jesus, I dressed with help, 
went down and assisted Mr. Dudley in the meeting, 
remaining to tea and worship. 

I found it very difficult to ascend the stairs at night, 
even with my husband's help. The next morning the 
pain in my head, back and lungs w T as intense. I asked 
the Lord if he wished me to go to my West Side meet- 
ing that afternoon, that He would enable me to reach 
my room and give me sleep and a conscious touch of 
divine power. I fell into a sweet sleep, awaking after 
some hours, realizing a cooling, restful sensation in 
every afflicted part. I slept again; was awakened by 
the announcement that a dear sister wished to see me. 
She was surprised to find me in bed, and prayed for me, 
before she asked my prayers for a relative who was very 
ill and a wicked man, that he might be spared to care 
for his family of little children and have time to repent. 
We prayed, and that prayer was answered. 

Soon two ladies called from out of town. I at first 
felt that I could not see them, it was so near meeting 
time; then came the thought this may be my only 
opportunity to speak to them of Jesus. Each desired 
prayers for unsaved members of her family. One was 
in great unrest. I gave such passages of Scripture as 
the Holy Spirit brought to mind. She entered into a 
place of abiding rest and peace, where she remained 
until her death. Some of the friends for whom we 



104 SOME OP THE FRUITS OP 

prayed have been converted. I now realized that I 
was healed. 

Before I had finished my dinner, an editor from an 
adjoining city called. I spent a few moments telling 
him of Jesus' love and power, and then took the car for 
the meeting. 

The Lord led me to talk upon "Trials." All present 
were greatly blessed, none more than myself. Once 
while I was talking the dreadful suffocation seized me 
and I nearly lost my breath; however, was soon able to 
resume my lesson. 

That night after I had taken my supper the most 
distressing symptoms came rushing upon me, and I 
felt that I could not get to our room without assist- 
ance, but the Holy Ghost showed me not to lean even 
upon my husband. With the greatest effort, in the 
name of Jesus, I ascended the stairs. Attempting to 
kneel, I found myself prostrate upon the floor. Finally 
I was enabled to rise and reach my bed, and then came 
a fierce fight. The pressure upon my heart and lungs 
was like a huge weight, rendering it almost impossible 
to catch one breath after another, It was as though 
two persons were having a hand-to-hand fight within 
my afflicted body. Satan was determined to destroy 
the action of my heart and lungs, but the Holy Spirit 
was preventing him. 

I at once commenced to cast the devils out in the 
name of Jesus; thus through that all-powerful name 
putting myself with the Holy Ghost against Satan. 
The longer I continued to do this the more severe the 
struggle. After an hour or more, suddenly the mighty 
weight rolled off, and I rested w^ell that night, and next 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 105 

morning went about my duties as usual. I had a few 
symptoms afterward, no one but Jesus knew. 

The lesson taught in this trial was to "hearken dili- 
gently and obey the voice of the Lord/' walking in His 
ways only, not allowing the least human remedy to 
come between God and us to weaken or destroy our 
faith, and to keep trusting when the battle was fiercest 
until the victory was won. 

Two years later Dr. B., the new pastor of our church, 
called to inquire concerning my faith. I told him the 
foundation of my belief. He said, as did our former 
pastor, that he knew little or nothing about Divine 
Healing. He bade me God-speed in my good work, 
and said he would gladly assist me should I call upon 
him. 

Not long after this his little daughter was taken with 
diphtheria and died; he also had the same disease and 
was quarantined six weeks. The great cry of my heart 
to God was that Dr. B. might know our precious Jesus 
as the Healer. 

One night soon after I was awakened, groaning with 
severe pain. I could scarcely move. Mr. Dudley prayed 
for me and I soon fell asleep. In the morning it was 
with the utmost difficulty that I could dress. I went 
down to breakfast praising the Lord, wishing no one 
to know of my suffering, but the effort every movement 
cost me showed that something was wrong. Mr. Dud- 
ley anointed me, and I was relieved for a time, but not 
healed, as was usual when he anointed me. The pain 
increased until each breath was a groan. I would also 
say with every groan, "Praise the Lord!" All day this 
continued. During the night I slept a painful sleep, 
often waking, and asking the Lord to show me the les* 



106 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

son He would teach. Several times the thought came 
to me, send for your minister to anoint you. I replied: 
"I have been anointed." Again and again it came — 
send for Dr. B. to anoint you. Saying, "I will, Lord/' I 
fell asleep, awaking in the morning with the pain, sore- 
ness and lameness so great that I could scarcely move. 
I sent for Dr. B.; he came, prayed with me and anointed 
me. The moment the oil touched my head I was made 
whole; and overflowing with praise, I told him I was 
healed, and would go to my West Side meetings that 
day. He replied, "Mrs. Dudley, you must rest," but he 
was not out of the hall before I was up and dressing; 
ate my dinner, ordered my horse, and was at his house 
almost as soon as he was, telling him what the Lord 
had done for me. He appeared surprised at seeing me 
out, and warned me to be careful, as it was one of the 
most severe days of that winter. 

I returned on the cars late after the evening meet- 
ing, walking several blocks, rejoicing in God for the 
perfect deliverance He had given, and praising Him 
for the privilege of being used to answer my own pray- 
ers, in showing the healing power of my blessed Jesus. 

I recall another instance when it was given me to 
suffer in exemplification of niy own teachings. 

There was a dear sister in the Home who often said, 
O dear! and groaned much. I had been trying to teach 
her the blessedness of saying instead, Praise the Lord! 
but she would only say, "If you suffered much you 
could not always say Praise the Lord." In the morn- 
ing of a day when there were to be two meetings in dif- 
ferent parts of the city I was suddenly taken with 
pneumonia. My blessed Lord gave me strength to at- 
tend the meetings and reach home again ; after prayer 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 107 

I fell asleep, but was called from my bed to pray with 
this sister, when I nearly fainted. I could only draw 
sufficient strength from the Lord to reach her side; no 
prayer was given me, only the words of the Holy Ghost, 
"You must praise the Lord," and I dropped upon the 
floor, where I lay for a long time gasping, "Praise the 
Lord." 

His healing hand was laid upon us both; I again 
retired, and awoke in the morning quite w r ell. The dear 
one greeted me with, "Oh, you poor child, you had to 
suffer this to show me that you would say 'Praise the 
Lord' whether you could breathe or not." 

Beloved, there is victory in saying with your lips, 
Praise the Lord. In giving the shout before the walls 
fall. 

I was called to a Northern town to give Bible read- 
ings one Sunday in the absence of the pastor. Symp- 
toms of a cold w T ere coming on, which I handed over to 
my loving Physician, but in the morning I found there 
was much congestion; my lungs were sore and quite 
painful. I was being entertained by dear friends who 
themselves knew T the Divine Healer, and I asked them 
to pray for me at morning worship. Three appoint- 
ments, several miles apart, had been planned for me 
for that day and evening. I knew the strength of the 
Lord would be sufficient, and I must not consult my 
feelings in the least. I was not made free, but was 
wonderfully sustained in all the services, and several 
persons w T ere healed. 

When my day's work was done, and I laid my weary 
body down to rest, I thanked God for the courage and 
grace he had given me, and fell asleep, awaking in the 
morning refreshed and healed* 



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Soon after this, late one day I was similarly attacked, 
but with greater severity. It was with difficulty I 
could get my breath. The atmosphere was very chilly, 
a heavy mist was falling, and it seemed an utter impos- 
sibility for me to attend my regular meeting in another 
part of the city that evening. 

Mr. Dudley prayed for me, then asked: "Are you 
sure the Lord wants you to go?" It had been made very 
clear to me that I must go, and we started. I had to 
stop several times to recover my breath before we 
reached the car; an open car with wet seats, the wind 
whipping the water from the drenched curtains upon 
us during our four miles' ride. Before reaching our 
destination we were told to change cars; the street was 
torn up, and we were compelled to walk a considerable 
distance, climbing over piles of stone and dirt. My 
breath and strength seemed failing at every step. 
After leaving the next car there were also several 
blocks to walk. When at last we reached the place of 
meeting I was unable to speak. Only believers were 
present; dear Sister Nevins was the first to pray, and 
she prayed for me; a great load rolled from my lungs 
and I was free. It was the last time I have ever had a 
touch of congestion of the lungs, though this was a 
number of years ago. 

I learned many precious lessons in these tests, and 
proved to myself and others the keeping power of God. 
Even when the conditions remain the same we may be 
lifted above them all, and in His strength, with praises, 
do whatever lies before us to do. 

Do not speak of trials, nor talk about them afterward 
only to help some one else gain a victory; never for the 
sake of exciting human sympathy, but simply to show 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 109 

how God will use His obedient ones, even more won- 
derfully, perhaps, when they are bravely trusting Him, 
and acting their faith by giving no heed to the trial, 
doing what is before them in His almighty strength, 
fearing no bad results. 

Some dear ones spoil their testimonies by complain- 
ing and talking so much about their bad feelings. 
Upon meeting them and saying, "How do you do?" as 
is customary in our country, they begin at once to talk 
of themselves; before they are aware of it, the conver- 
sation is just what the devil w r ants it to be, and those 
who have listened go aw T ay to say, "These healed 'faith 
cure' people who give such glowing testimonies in meet- 
ings are always grunting." 

Beloved, let us for the glory of God be very guarded 
in this particular: See that every clay our words and 
acts are in faith. "Walk in wisdom toward them that 
are without." Col. 4:5. 

I have lost only four days from illness since the first 
edition of this book, and these were not altogether lost 
days. 

Let no one think he must have similar experiences. 
God knows just w r hat each one needs. I have asked 
to be an "overconier," and I see clearly that I cannot 
be unless there is something to overcome. - 

Your loving Father will give you the trials you need, 
for He will have a tried people. His grace is always 
sufficient if you will take it, and not yield to suffering 
and say, "I can't." Be true, be brave. Your words 
and actions will powerfully affect your feelings, either 
for good or bad. 

Praise the Lord! 

"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so." 



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CHAPTER XIII. 

MIRACULOUS ANSWERS AND DELIVERANCES. 

Miraculous, indeed, have been God's dealings with us 
in these ten years. I will relate a few instances for 
His glory. 

When niy dear husband came to "Beulah" he had 
some money, which he used entirely for the work, deny- 
ing himself in every way to help others, first paying a 
part of the mortgage and my personal debts before 
mentioned; the remainder of his money going toward 
the support of the large family, toward meeting the 
expenses of conventions, and in the general work. 
When this was gone the pressure upon us was often 
great. 

At one of these times, when things in the larder had 
become very low, so much so that there was almost 
nothing in the house to eat, a lady who in our meetings 
had been converted from an infidel, wished to come with 
her attendant, both from homes of plenty. I dared not 
refuse to receive them, but said, "Lord, thou knowest 
all about it, do not let this test weaken the faith of the 
one so recently converted, whom Thou hast permitted 
to come here in this time of need." 

We gathered enough fragments for the first meal. 

The hens just now stopped laying, so there were no 
more eggs. Before dinner time the cook said to me, 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. Ill 

"We have a squash, some dried corn, and a little corn- 
meal, but not a cent to get sour milk to make a cake." 
I told her that I would go to a friend about a mile away 
and try to get some. Taking a pail I started with a 
merry, happy heart, singing, "I'm a child of the King," 
as I met old acquaintances in their fine livery who 
scarcely noticed me. Hallelujah! I was as happy as a 
child of the King should be. 

My friend had no sour milk, but gave me some sweet 
milk. A little vinegar and soda, with our cornmeal, 
made a very good cake, and we thanked God and ate, 
making no excuses. 

Tea time drew near; again the cook said, "All we 
have is a little graham flour." I said, "Make some 
gems with water." "But," said she, "that will be all, 
and there is not much." "Well," I said, "I will not eat 
any." I returned to the sitting-room, when one of the 
ladies placed a five dollar bill in my hand, and we had 
a good supper. The next morning the following letter 
was received: 

Millbrook, Mich., Nov. 5, 1890. 
Dear Brother and Sister Dudley: 

Perhaps you think I have forgotten what I said about 
sending some potatoes and garden vegetables to you, 
but such is not the fact. For some cause our potatoes 
did not yield enough for our own use; but I have filled 
two barrels with turnips, cabbages, apples and beets, 
and some pork and beans. Am now about to take them 
to the K. B. station. 

This is a "free will offering." Perhaps the Lord will 
command some other "Eaven" to supply the potatoes, 
if he has not already. I will prepay charges. 



112 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

My heart is full of praise and thanksgiving for all He 
has done for me and mine. Would like to write more, 
but must close and take the things to the depot. Write 
to us if they reach you safely. 

Am quite sure the Lord will not let them freeze. 
Pray for us. 

Your brother and sist3r, 

A. C. West and Wife. 

This letter written by our dear brother West gave 
us much joy. He had been healed of varicose veins, 
the worst case ever brought to my attention. He was 
obliged to sit with his feet in a chair much of the 
time. 

The next day after the letter the barrels came, and 
we had a genuine hallelujah time when we opened them. 
It seemed they had come straight down from Heaven. 

Once just before Thanksgiving we were out of every- 
thing; really had not enough for a meal. We had 
asked our Father for a Thanksgiving dinner, but the 
evening shades fell upon us and it almost seemed God 
had forgotten, but not so. The dear friends at Cedar 
Springs had been very busy preparing a Thanksgiving 
box for "Beulah." I only wish they could have seen 
our happy faces and heard our praises to God when 
we received and opened it Thanksgiving morning, and 
known the gratitude of our hearts as we partook of the 
good things the dear Lord had prompted them to send. 
I am sure our hallelujahs reached the ear of God. 

Another year we asked Him to send us a turkey for 
Thanksgiving; we fully expected one, but it did not 
come, and we had very little of anything. We thanked 
God for the little. 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 113 

At Christmas a turkey came; and two persons said 
they really intended to send us a turkey for Thanksgiv- 
ing, but neglected to do so. 

Father had not been unmindful of our cry, but the 
hearts of those He had spoken to, by the Holy Spirit, 
were not obedient. Thank God for hearkening ears, 
obedient hearts and willing hands. Many times have 
our calls for money, food and fuel reached the heart of 
our compassionate Lord, and He has used His faithful 
children to answer our prayers. Surely they have re- 
ceived great blessing, for He declares: "It is more 
blessed to give than to receive." We were so blessed in 
receiving, they must have been much more blessed in 
giving. 

At other times Jesus has increased the food for us. 
Once when the house w as full of poor people, who re- 
mained three days for Bible study, we had no flour, a 
few vegetables, and only a small piece of butter. Some 
bread w r as sent in. Before each meal the cook would 
say, "There is not more than butter enough for another 
time." All ate what they wished, and our supply, like 
the widow's meal, "wasted not." The guests knew 
nothing of our extremity. 

I remember one time when there w^as no flour and 
little else. We had a season of prayer for money. The 
mail brought five dollars from a lady in Maine whom we 
had never seen. Another time we all knelt in the 
kitchen to ask for flour. The sponge was ready to 
make the bread. We prayed and waited. A little 
child of one of the helpers said: "Listen for the rap at 
the door," expecting some one to bring the flour, but no 
rap came. Suddenly I recollected that a neighbor upon 
leaving her home for a time had told me to go and get 



114 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

whatever was in the house that w^e could use for our 
table. Taking the key we went into the house, and lo! 
there was flour and many other things. The child's 
faith was strengthened. 

When I first came into this work I asked my Lord to 
please give me a fur coat, and that I would like an 
Astrakhan. Six winters came and went, I was thinly 
clad and many times cold, when in a wonderful way all 
His own came the desired garment. I never put on 
the warm coat without thanking my Heavenly Father 
for it. 

Expenses had accumulated, fifty dollars must be 
raised at once. In the night my heart was greatly bur- 
dened, and the Lord heard my cry. A few days later a 
letter containing twenty-five dollars came from Cali- 
fornia, the brother saying he was enabled to give be- 
cause the Lord had prospered him. We thanked him 
heartily, saying surely the Lord led him to answer our 
prayer in sending help to meet a pressing obligation. 
In a few days twenty-five dollars more came from the 
same brother, just meeting the demand. Our hearts 
were full of praise to God and gratitude to the obedient 
brother. More than a year ago our beloved Beulah 
Home was sold for delinquent taxes. A little had been 
given toward it, and the time was drawing near when 
it must be redeemed. We knew not how to get the 
money. I felt led to ask a person to lend us the amount, 
not knowing that he had any money. He answered, 
"If you had asked me a week ago I could not have 
granted your request; a little more than you wish has 
come to me unexpectedly." 

I never realized so fully the meaning of the word 
redeemed as when our dear home was redeemed. - 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 115 

Later we sold one of the twin cows our Lord had 
given us and paid the note. 

One morning, the coldest of the winter, our supply of 
fuel gave out; a small sum of money came in the mail, 
and wood sufficient to keep fire part of the day was pur- 
chased. A w r ild storm of wind and snow was raging 
with increasing force as night approached. Through 
the shadows and the blinding snow a team was dis- 
cerned in the driveway by the house, and with great joy 
we beheld a large load of wood drawn up to the door. 
Dear brother. Eedmond, in obedience to the call of God, 
had driven nearly thirty miles that dreadful day to 
bring us the wood and a dressed lamb. He had several 
times before brought loads of different things, a way 
he had of showing his gratitude for the healing of his 
dear wife. 

The past winter has been one of peculiar trials fol- 
lowing each other in quick succession. 

All our guests were poor people; we realized that w^e 
could not keep the home open another week unless help 
came from some source soon. The remaining cow and 
such things as we could spare had been sold. 

We all waited upon the Lord, as we had done many 
times before in self-examination, seeking to learn if the 
needed means were withheld because we w r ere in any 
way displeasing to Him. 

After a day of fasting and prayer we could discover 
no "sin in the canip," so we asked a token of our Lord, 
that if the work w r as to be continued He would send us 
immediately the thirty dollars necessary to keep the 
house open, and also to be pleased to put it into some 
hearts to make weekly, monthly or yearly offerings. 

The first that came was from a dear little consecrated 



116 SOME OP THE FRUITS OF 

band of hard-working people, who said they felt im- 
pressed to send their monthly offering of five dollars 
here, this year, instead of sending it to the foreign field 
as usual. Our hearts were gladdened. At the close 
of the week thirty-one dollars had been received. 

I was called to a small Northern town, where the 
people were very poor, and the women were not thrifty 
housewives. 

After a day of arduous labor I found myself in a 
very dirty, ill-smelling room, having no possible means 
of ventilation. By the dim light that flickered through 
the smoky lamp-chimney I was quite horrified, upon 
opening the bed, to behold traces of the violent slaugh- 
ter that had been made by the last occupant, to say 
nothing of the otherwise soiled bed. I looked at the 
floor. I could not lie there. I said, "Oh, Lord, why 
am I here? Surely not for my own pleasure." 

Then I began to thank Him for the privilege of being 
in that place for Him, and asked Him not to let me be 
in the least disturbed, nor suffer me to take any of the 
insects home with me. The prayer w x as answ r ered. How 
truly he who notes the sparrow's fall cares most ten- 
derly for all that concerns His trusting people. 

I soon fell asleep, awaking when the light streamed 
through the dirt-stained windows. 

After breakfast the weary, sick mother sat down to 
tell me of her many troubles, thanking God with tears 
streaming from her eyes for the privilege of entertaining 
one of His children, to whom she dared pour out her 
heart sorrows. After prayer and imparting much com- 
fort from Himself and His Word, I saw her healed and 
rejoicing in the Lord. I praised my God with a full 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 117 

heart for tlie opportunity of ministering in the Holy 
Ghost to His needy, suffering one. 

Satan has tried several times to destroy my life. 
Three times I have had miraculous escapes when horses 
took fright and ran. Once a wheel crushed and let me 
out of the vehicle unhurt. Again, the team freed itself 
from the sleigh, and no harm came to us. Not long ago 
the horse I drive became frightened and overturned the 
carriage; the lady who was with me received only a 
few scratches, although she w T as throw^n out over me. 
I struck upon my head and was dragged some distance 
over the stones, helplessly bundled in the top of the 
buggy; suddenly my great body, weighing over two 
hundred pounds, was lifted by angelic hands, Psa. 
91:11, 12, out of the crashing mass and I was set upon 
my feet. There were some bruises, which the Lord soon 
removed. I have a more exalted consciousness of the 
all-protecting care of our merciful Father, who, ? mid 
dangers seen and unseen, tenderly guards His own. 

For many years I have traveled thousands of miles 
each year, by all sorts of conveyances, always placing 
myself and those who journeyed with me in His dear 
hands, proving His word true, "He that keepeth thee 
will not slumber. The Lord shall preserve thee from 
all evil. * * * * The Lord shall preserve thy go- 
ing out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even 
for evermore." 



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CHAPTEK XIV. 

ASLEEP IN JESUS. 

About the time the first edition of this book was pub- 
lished I married Mr. John H. Dudley. As this edition 
goes to press I have to add a chapter that in some ways 
is very sad to me, but glorious for him. 

Jesus wanted my precious husband, and has taken 
him to Himself. His last days were beautiful, and his 
departure triumphant. 

Our union was very sweet. We loved with more 
than a natural affection, for He who brought us to- 
gether imparted to each His own holy love. 

My dear husband was a very choice spirit; tender, 
gentle, quiet, and always kind to every one. Few of 
the gentler sex possess so fine an organism. 

His conversion was very marked in early life before 
his first marriage. While alone in the field at w^ork 
the Holy Ghost came upon him like a mighty rushing 
wind; he was conscious of being emptied and filled, 
filled with a holy power, peace, joy, and physical health, 
with a buoyancy and elasticity which seemed to lift him 
above earth, and he walked and talked with God. 

All his prayers were answered, and the knowledge 
of the answer was given him before the manifestation 
came. 

This joy in the Holy Ghost continued unbroken for 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 119 

three months — then, like a lightning flash, as it came, 
it left. He was thrust into darkness and gloom as great 
as his peace and joy had been. Not knowing this was 
a temptation of the enemy, he accepted the despair and 
thought he was lost, diseased conditions which had 
caused him much suffering returned w^ith great fury, 
and he continually mourned over his lost blessings. 

After a time this affected his mind, and his friends 
feared self-destruction. 

His sorrow was very deep at the death of his dear 
wife, also when a few years later his widowed mother, 
with whom he had lived, was called home. 

Afterward he came to me for prayer and seemed 
somewhat encouraged. He then visited my Home, 
remaining from week to week, making himself very use- 
ful, for he had the faculty of turning his hand to any 
work, in a very quiet manner. After a few x months he 
surprised me one day by asking me in a business-like 
way to become his wife, saying he had for many years 
believed this way of faith to be the true way, and had 
come into a place of consecration of himself and what- 
ever he possessed, that he had never before known, and 
that he would like to be with me in this blessed work 
the remainder of his life. 

I had not thought to marry again, but after waiting 
upon my Lord, He clearly showed me that He could use 
us together better than alone, and gave us the sweet, 
holy love for each other before alluded to, which came 
upon me like a mighty shower, and has never left 
me. 

I did not know of his real condition. I knew he was 
melancholy, but the dear Lord withheld from me the 
knowledge that it was a form of insanity. 



120 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

He had great faith for others, but not for himself. 
He held up my hands in every way. Not one word of 
complaint escaped him when I had to leave home for 
days together. He could not always accompany me. 
We both knew he needed me, but when God called an- 
other way, we each said, Amen. 

One Sunday, a few months after our marriage, we 
sat in our room together, when suddenly he threw down 
his reading and sprang to his feet, exclaiming, "I can- 
not endure it, I will cut my throat!" and rushed past 
me with a wild, fiery look. I ran after him and caught 
his coat, crying out, "Don't!" He loosed himself from 
my grasp, and declaring wildly, "I will," was out of my 
sight in an instant. 

I went to my closet, and upon my face cried to God 
to hold him from his mad purpose and to heal him. I 
was received into a cloud of glory, and these words in 
glowing letters of light flashed upon my vision: "I will 
do exceeding abundantly above all you ask or think." 
This was God's promise to my heart that my loved one 
should not destroy himself and would be healed of the 
diseases he then had. 

I was filled with ecstatic joy and exclaimed, "Glory! 
glory! glory!" 

I arose and resumed my Bible study, when suddenly 
my spirit seemed to be caught away above earth, and 
in rapturous exultation I looked down upon my motion- 
less body. For fully an hour I realized that I was eat- 
ing the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of God, 
while about me in words of fire flamed the same won- 
derful promise. 

When my spirit returned to my body I finished my 
lessons with great blessing, and taking the Christian 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 121 

Alliance paper went down to the hammock and read 
until it began to grow dark, when I heard footsteps, 
and looking up saw my dear husband coming toward 
me with his hands full of wild flowers,, which we both 
loved so much. 

His face was bright; he seated himself beside me, 
and we talked of God's goodness and love until quite 
late, not alluding to the experiences of the afternoon. 

He used to say that these attacks would come upon 
him without a moment's warning, and he had no more 
power to control himself than he had to control the 
wind. 

We recognized this to be satanic power, and often 
cast the devil out in Jesus' name, gaining many vic- 
tories. 

Satan had sought all these years to make Mr. Dudley 
destroy himself, and would drive him from his home 
and friends for a longer or shorter period, ever holding 
before him the lost blessings of his early life, working 
upon his delicate, sensitive nature until he became 
morbidly conscientious, and suffered beyond descrip- 
tion. 

He had frequent glimpses of Beulah Land, and we 
would think the promise about to be fulfilled, when he 
would be thrust down again. 

I was summoned by telegraph to Battle Creek. 
When Mr. Dudley left me on the train I saw the gloom 
upon his dear face; but I was clear to go, and said, "I 
will return on the first train to-morrow, dear, be sure to 
meet me." He kissed me and w r ent sadly out. 

In the morning before I left for home a dispatch 
came with these words: "Mr. Dudley has gone away." 
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meet me; but he did not, and had not been seen or 
heard from. 

Thinking every moment that he would come, and yet 
he did not, a horror seized upon me that he might de- 
stroy himself — and as the hours came and went and my 
precious one came not, I was almost in despair. 

Then the promise given so long ago was applied with 
new force, and I seemed to be held as I had been in all 
these years, in times of distress, by those wonderful 
words. 

Still I felt I must spend the night in prayer for his 
return. Dear sister Patrick, who was with us for a lit- 
tle stay, and is now in glory, and our own dear Mrs. 
Morse, who has been for many years an invaluable 
helper in our home, watched and prayed with me. 
Afterward I learned that Mr. Dudley walked twenty- 
two miles on the shores of Lake Michigan, alone that 
night, in the fury of the craze. 

At times paroxysms of uncontrollable grief would 
sweep over me — my dear family would pray — and that 
promise would again and again blaze forth before me 
so I could praise God and take courage. 

The awful suspense continued for one week, the long- 
est week of my life. 

Then a letter came from my darling asking me to 
come to him in an adjoining town. I pray God I may 
never see another such a picture of despair. Upon my 
arrival he was cheered and comforted. He remained 
at the lakeside in rented rooms during the warm 
weather. Saturday and Sunday of each week I was 
with him, the rest of the time attending to home work 
as usual. This was a great trial to us both to be thus 
separated, but it was all we could do until greater vie- 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 123 

tories were gained. During these weeks the sweet con- 
sciousness was mine that I had neither neglected my 
husband nor my Lord's work, or failed to go at God's 
bidding. 

But I now saw that I owed my dear afflicted com- 
panion a duty above all others. 

When we returned to our home he was better in 
mind and body. Mr. Dudley had faith for all but him- 
self, and many were wonderfully healed; he was seldom 
so bad that he could not take hold with real faith for 
others, and was often delivered himself while praying 
for them. 

'Many approaching attacks of the enemy were averted 
by praising God for the promise He had given me that 
glorious hour. The diseases upon him were held in 
check, and nearly all the distressing symptoms usual in 
throat and lung troubles would be instantly removed 
when we prayed. 

In this way we had grand victories. Many months 
before Jesus took him he was in rest of mind, and some 
of the most distressing diseases for which we had 
prayed so long were healed. Our hearts were filled 
with praise, and during these weeks of quietness of 
spirit, persons whom we never saw were marvelously 
healed while we prayed. 

He was of such a modest, shrinking, timid nature, 
that we often had greater power in prayer when we 
were alone with God. 

He always held up my hands and was the most un- 
selfish person I ever knew; putting himself and his 
desires entirely aside lest he should stand between God 
and me. 



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I feel his loss more and more, but the blessed Holy 
Ghost comforts me. 

He was in bed but one day; that morning I had a 
severe attack of la grippe. As his trembling lips prayed 
the blessed Lord to heal his dear wife, all symptoms 
left instantly, and I have never had a touch since. 

He pressed my hand in recognition three breaths 
before the last, and as his precious sprit winged its 
flight upward the glory light of heaven covered his 
face, and the sweet look of peace remained when we 
laid his loved form away until the resurrection morn, 
when Jesus shall call the holy dead to come forth to 
meet him and the holy living in the clouds of the air. 

For a time Satan sought to thrust the same diseases 
upon me, and the gloom of my loved one's life swooped 
over me like a dark cloud. He taunted me by saying, 
"God promised you His life, and why did he die?" I 
could only bow my head in my grief and say, "I don't 
know. God is true, and His word is true, that I do 
know, and we were walking in all the light we had, and 
w T ere fully trusting in Jesus, who doeth all things well, 
and I will praise Kim." 

My heart would cry in the depths of its sorrow, "Why, 
Lord, when Thou hast healed so many through our 
pray ers, why was not my precious husband spared and 
perfectly healed, to work with me the promised seventy 
years — for he was only sixty-two?" As the weeks went 
on, and these questions were often asked me, I would 
reply, "I don't know. I only know God is true and His 
word is true." 

In all this I was greatly comforted by the thought 
that we had kept the faith, and I had reason to be- 
lieve that our prayers had been answered more fully 



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than we realized; that his life had been spared several 
years and much suffering had been averted because we 
trusted in the Lord. 

One evening at worship the ninetieth Psalm was 
read, where David said: "The days of our years are 
three score years and ten." The Holy Spirit flashed 
light upon the Word and this truth was revealed to me. 

"Before the flood the days of man's life were several 
hundred years. In the Jewish dispensation seventy 
years. At the ushering in of this Gospel age, Jesus 
Christ finished His work at thirty-three, and Paul, it 
is said, when he was about sixty." 

In 2 Tim. 4:6, 7, 8, he said: "I am now ready to be 
offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I 
have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I 
have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me 
a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous 
Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, 
but unto all them, also, that love His appearing." My 
soul w T as filled with delight at this revelation of God's 
word. For I had reason to believe that my dear hus- 
band had also finished his work and kept the faith and 
gone to receive his crow r n. 

The promise so marvelously given me years before 
was fulfilled for what I then asked for him. 

I am constantly comforted with the precious thought 
that my dear one did what he could, and is now sheltered 
from the storms of life, safe in the presence of Jesus. 

All who knew him loved him. None but his dearest 
friends knew his worth; no one so well as the one who 
loved him best, and mourns him most, looking eagerly 
forward to the coming of her glorious King Jesus, when 
the reunion will be complete. 



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CHAPTER XV. 

CLOSING THOUGHTS. 

There have been but four deaths in our Home in 
eight and one-half years. One of these was my precious 
husband, and one a dear friend and co-worker, Mrs. 
F. L. Childs, who chose to depart and be with Christ. 
Only two guests, one a gentleman who died when the 
house was first opened; the other a lady from Ohio, 
brought in a dying condition, who received rich spir- 
itual blessing, and, as she said, by coming here was 
better prepared to meet her Lord. The latter was 
among the first arrivals after Mr. Dudley's death. 

I rejoice in the knowledge that we are in a measure 
fulfilling the word of our Saviour to preach the gospel 
to every nation. Persons representing more than a 
dozen different nationalities have here been taught the 
grand truths of this blessed four-fold gospel; I know 
not how many more from other nations have been led to 
fully trust in Jesus. Praise the Lord for this privilege! 

The following is an extract from a letter written by 
the mother of one of our dear missionaries, William 
Knapp, who has since laid down his life in China : 

"I have some good news which I think will encourage 
you. In a letter from Will, he says there was a lady 
missionary returned from China to Glasgow, Scotland, 
to die; her physician had given her up. Mrs. Birrel 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 127 

(Will's mother-in-law, who lives in Glasgow) loaned her 
your book "Beulah," which I had sent to Mrs. Birrel as 
a present. The missionary read it, was healed, and has 
herself established a faith home for missionaries. 
Praise the Lord!" 

My heart was overflowing with praise when I re- 
ceived this letter; for months my soul had been burn- 
ing to do something for the foreign work, but I saw no 
way in which by closer self-denial I could possibly do 
more than I was already doing; therefore it was espe- 
cially cheering to know that the Lord was answering 
my heart's desire indirectly, in a way I knew not. 

I cannot thank God enough for the precious conse- 
crated helpers he has sent us; these have stood faith- 
fully by us amid all the trials and privations we have 
been called to go through. 

God only knows what this has meant. I am very 
sure that every one of them will share with us in the 
reward by and by. 

I now feel that the Lord would have me conduct the 
Home on a somewhat different plan hereafter; still, 
sure we have thus far followed Him, and we will follow 
as He leads in the future, believing that the trials He 
has led us through have been steps up to higher places, 
each one the needful step at the time. 

The fire burns the dross and bands away and brings 
out the pure gold. He will not let it be too hot nor 
burn one moment too long. The blessed One has been 
sitting by us, and the form of the fourth has been in 
our midst. 

I have asked to be like Jesus, and have found that 
meant much more than I knew. My prayer is that the 
blessed Holy Spirit shall baptize these pages, that they 



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may be blessed a hundredfold more than those of the 
former edition, filling the heart of each one who shall 
read them with the love-life of the Son of God. 

May many receive the Holy Ghost (heavenly Guest) 
to abide within them. 

May He open hearts to help carry forward this work 
of love for Jesus, and still further use us to help prepare 
many for the Bride of Ghrist. That whether we wake 
or sleep we may be caught up together in the clouds in 
the air to meet Him, King Jesus. 



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TESTIMONIALS. 

Mrs. F. L. Childs, Grand Kapids, Mich. — Having been 
interested in the Beulah Home of Grand Rapids ever 
since it was founded, and quite familiar with all of its 
workings, I can truly say that a vast amount of good 
has been done through this plan of Gospel Healing. 
In this faith God has revealed Himself to me in a won- 
derful manner. But alas! alas! how many long years 
it has taken me to learn this beautiful lesson, having 
made a profession of religion for forty-six years. Dur- 
ing all this time I suppose I have lived as many pro- 
fessed Christians have done, and what I now call fol- 
lowing Jesus afar off. Truly, much of the time I had 
a desire to do good, and even more, lead others to 
Christ. But whenever I attempted to direct others to 
Him, I seemed to lack words. I had not the vital 
experience. I could not direct others to the many, 
many precious promises of Jesus because I knew not 
fully their meaning; such as Isa. 26:3: "Thou wilt 
keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on 
Thee, because he trusteth in Thee." I thought I was 
trusting Him; but was it a perfect trust, when I had 
never learned that I could fully place my body in His 
hands for healing, as well as my soul for salvation? 
Thereby part of the blessing was withheld, both for 
soul and body. But after being repeatedly invited by 
Sister Griffin to attend some of the faith meetings held 
in Grand Kapids, I at last consented to go. I was more 



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than gratified with what I heard and saw. Every 
prayer seemed to come from the hearts of those who 
prayed, and as though they expected an answer. The 
scriptures w^ere explained and listened to, with so much 
sincerity and earnestness, and the truths were brought 
out in His Word so clearly on the subject, it seemed 
that no child could help but understand. I at once 
began to search for myself, attended nearly all the 
meetings, and, so far as others were concerned, believed 
that it was the way, but could not see it for myself. 
Then the passage came to my mind, "God is no respecter 
of persons"; and another, "According to your faith be 
it unto you." I began to claim the promises, as though 
they were written expressly for me. Could I then claim 
them for healing? I was not sick, had never been 
tested. Soon after this, one very hot day in J11I3 7 , while 
every nerve in my body seemed to be quivering, I was 
preparing to lead a ladies' prayer meeting in the 
church, when I made the remark that I did wish I 
could get something to take away this trembling and 
nervousness. A young man who heard it quietly re- 
plied, "Take it to the Lord in prayer," as I had often 
told him. I felt condemned, and said, "Why not?" 
This set me to thinking. I had been much afflicted 
with this nervousness, brought on by nervous prostra- 
tion some six years before, and was scarcely ever free 
from it. My head would many times tremble so it 
w r as perceptible to others and embarrassing to myself. 
One day soon after, the Lord seemed to fill my soul with 
joy, and I was crying unto Him to mold and fashion 
me after His own image, make me a fit temple for His 
own use, when the thought came, how much this ner- 
vousness hindered me in the active duties of life, sing- 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 131 

ing, etc. A still, small voice whispered, Why not be 
anointed for this? I said, Yes, Lord, I will. That 
evening Sister Griffin came to our house. I told her 
I was ready to obey the simple command of being 
anointed in the name of Jesus, according to James 5:14, 
and trust Jesus fully. She anointed and prayed with 
me, and immediately all the quivering of the nerves 
stopped, my head ceased to shake, and my soul was 
full of joy and praise. From that time a new field of 
labor opened before me; scarcely a day has passed 
since that there have not been opportunities in which 
I could do personal work for Jesus in my daily occu- 
pation, meeting the sick, among the converted and un- 
converted people. My Physician was ever present with 
me, whispering, "Point them to me." The Bible is a 
new and precious book to me. I can appreciate the 
words, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace," etc. 
"Delight thyself also in the Lord, and He shall give 
thee the desires of thine heart." Ps. 37:4. In fact, all 
the promises of the Old and New Testaments were made 
clearer and brighter than ever before. Since I was 
anointed I have felt the touch of the enemy's power 
several times, with different ailments (for we are taught 
that Satan is the cause of all diseases), but have always 
found it so precious to fly to Jesus for refuge, trusting 
Him rather than the arm of flesh. And the spiritual 
blessing has always been double after the victory is 
won, and even when suffering I always felt that Jesus' 
own precious hand had touched my body, and I could 
not help but praise Him and tell to others the wonder- 
ful works of God. He got all the glory. I once learned 
a very sweet lesson while calling on a lady who had 
sickness in her home. A physician was there. After 



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he left she spoke in great praise of him and his skill 
in his profession, then related a simple incident of her 
child, ten years of age, of what he said the night before: 
"Why, papa and mamma, we ought to think the world 
of this doctor; only think what he has done for me," 
holding out his arm that had once been broken and 
was badly set, so when it was healed it was crooked. 
This physician had broken it over and set it again, and 
when it healed it was all right; "and now see what he 
has done for baby." I thought, Where did Jesus get 
any glory for his recovery? Had he been taught to 
take Him for his Healer, whom then would he have 
told everybody to love? 

About a month after I was anointed, my husband 
was anointed for night sweats that had been troubling 
him for nearly five years; had tried many physicians 
and much medicine. None helped but for a short time. 
But, praise the Lord, Jesus was victor; he has never 
had a return of them since. How blessed for families 
to be united in this faith! Previous to accepting this 
faith I had little or no time or strength for Christian 
work; could not afford it; could scarcely attend the 
church prayer meeting, let alone other church work. 
But when I learned that the great Phvsician was ever 
with me; that health and strength were purchased for 
me more than eighteen hundred years ago, as well as 
salvation for my soul, and all I had to do was to reach 
out and take it by faith, how quickly the Lord gave 
me new life, new zeal! His presence seemed to per- 
meate every part of my being; my youth was renewed 
and I felt the force of the promises in Isa. 40:29-31. 
I also found that He could bless my basket and store 
(Deut. 28:5), and not only give me time and strength 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 133 

to do more faithful church work, but I have attended 
nearly all the meetings at Beulah when I was in the 
city, besides many evening faith meetings in different 
parts of the city; never enjoyed any work better; and 
while absent this summer in the Northern Peninsula, 
had the privilege of presenting this glorious truth and 
the grand work of the Beulah Home to many different 
ones who became interested. One dear sister, Mrs. 
George Bedell of Hancock, was wonderfully helped in 
answer to prayer. She had not walked without a cane 
for six months, and was taking medicine all the time 
for a complication of diseases; laid it all aside, and 
also her cane, walked forth quite comfortably in the 
name of Jesus; afterward came to Beulah and received 
great benefit, both spiritually and physically. My con- 
stant prayer is that Christians will wake up to this 
blessed privilege and better way of serving God. 

Numberless times our beloved sister and co-worker 
testified that the five years she had been trusting the 
Lord for health were the healthiest years of her life. 

I give an extract from the Coroner's report in a city 
paper, showing how the Lord can give health and 
strength when all the diseased conditions remain. (Ed.) 
"One of the post mortem examinations revealed the 
strangest complication of diseases. It was that of a 
lady who died last February at Beulah Home, after 
being sick in bed only two days and having no treat- 
ment except that of prayer. Indeed, she got up to pray 
with the rest of them the very day she died. The post 
mortem revealed a cancerous condition of the liver, 
perforation of the duodenum, general peritonitis, the 
gall bladder full of gall stones, old inflammatory adhe- 



134 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

sions in the pelvic organs, and inflammation of the 
pleura." 



Mrs. Mary A. Ferris, Ada, Mich. 

"O God, my God, I cried unto Thee and Thou hast 
healed ine." 

I have felt for some time that I should bring my 
healing, which was in answer to prayer, before the 
public, and I gladly accept this opportunity of doing 
so. I earnestly pray that my testimony may be used 
of the dear Lord in bringing many suffering ones to 
trust in His promise as given in James 5:14, 15. 

From my early childhood I have been troubled with 
a skin disease of one of the worst forms. By some of 
the physicians it was called a species of leprosy. I have 
been treated by some of the best physicians in the 
state. I took mineral baths for two years, but no cure 
was effected. I only received temporary relief. Each 
time it took on a worse form; and for the last six years 
I have never been free from it. How I have suffered 
God and myself only know, for no one can possibly 
imagine anything about it. At times the itching and 
burning were terrible, and my nervous system became 
so weakened that for weeks I feared for my reason. 
I could not sleep, as I could not endure the warmth 
of the bed or the heat of the stove; and when I went 
into a cool room, nervous chills would seize me. In 
this way I put in long days and still longer nights. 
Was it any wonder I feared for my reason? At this 
time a friend said to me : "Why don't you trust in 
Jesus for the healing of your body?" It was a new 
thought to me, and I could not understand how to do 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 135 

so, and I thought no more of it. I continued to grow 
worse all the time, until I was literally covered with 
the loathsome disease. I don't think one could put his 
finger on my person from the crow T n of my head to my 
feet that was not covered with sores and white scales. 
I was so weak that I could scarcely walk across the 
floor. I generally rested on a couch away from the 
fire. 

One physician who had treated me for two years 
(and during that time had removed a tumor from the 
top of my head), in whom I had perfect confidence as a 
physician, told me that he had done all that could be 
done, and that it was not in the power of man to cure 
me; I could only receive temporary relief at the most. 
He also said that if I lived long enough, the flesh would 
undoubtedly drop off my bones. 

For years I had suffered greatly with sciatic rheuma- 
tism, so at times I was almost helpless. I had taken 
strong medicines every hour; my stomach had become 
so weakened that it seemed that every dose would burn 
it through. Then I began to cry mightily unto the 
Lord, asking Him what I should do, for I did not feel 
that I could live much longer in this way if I did not 
get relief. Then the thought again came to me, Why 
don't you trust in Jesus for your healing? I said at 
once, The Lord helping me, I will. I then said to my 
husband: "I have taken my last dose of medicine; I 
will give myself to the Lord, and if I live I will live 
to glorify Him, and if I die I will die rejoicing in His 
holy name." 

This was February 22d, and on the 23d he went with 
me to "Beulah." Thank God for "Beulah"! We had 
six miles to ride, but I told him I knew that the Lord 



136 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

would give me strength to go; and He did, praise His 
holy name. I gave my soul and body, sin-sick and 
sore, to the Lord, and He healed me. I received the 
anointing by Mrs. Griffin, and after making a public 
consecration of my entire being to the Lord (at the 
faith prayer meeting held at "Beulah" the same day) 
1 requested united prayers for my recovery. The dear 
heavenly Father did hear and answer our prayers just 
then; for I was instantly relieved from all suffering. 
All the pain and stiffness caused from the rheumatism, 
all the itching and burning of the leprosy was instantly 
taken away. My soul was filled with praises and re- 
joicing to my loving Saviour for His kindness toward 
me. I rode home that night with the most perfect 
ease, for I felt that the Lord was giving strength to 
my body all the way. 

I reached home, not feeling a bit tired. I prepared 
the tea, ate a hearty supper, washed the tea dishes, 
then sat down by the stove and warmed, without any 
itching or burning. Before retiring, I brushed from my 
body more than a dustpan full of scabs. I went to 
bed and slept well all night, and have not lost a night's 
sleep since. Next morning I arose and did a two-weeks' 
washing, a thing I had not done for years before. All 
the sores, scales and eruptions left my body, and my 
skin became as smooth and fresh as a child's. I have 
had perfect health since. We live on a farm and I 
have done all my own work, including washing, iron- 
ing and house cleaning, ever since. I had been able 
to do very little before this. 

O how my heart rejoices that I have found such a 
Saviour and Physician; one who is ready to heal all 
who trust in Him. 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 137 

Satan has been permitted to test my faith a little 
at times; but I do not fear, for I know in whom I 
trust. 

The symptoms of leprosy have shown themselves on 
my face, but it has been attended with no suffering but 
once, and that was relieved instantly in answer to 
prayer. I know that the Father has some wise pur- 
pose in thus trying me for a little season, and I know 
that when I learn the lessons He wishes to teach me, 
He will remove every trace of Satan's marks. I will 
trust Him, though He slay me; I will sing praises unto 
Him as long as I have breath. 

Blessed be the name of the Lord! 

" Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, 

Just to take Him at His word; 
Just to rest upon His promise; 

Just to know, thus saith the Lord." 

I never look upon the clear, fair flesh of our sister 
but I think of Naaman of old. I praise God with her 
for the perfect work He hath wrought, and for His 
keeping power. — [Ed.] 



Mr. S. A. Plummer, Fort Wayne, Ind. — In 1883, June 
16th, I was traveling in Iowa. The train I was on 
was about forty miles west of Dubuque, going at the 
rate of thirty-five or forty miles an hour, when we 
were struck by a cyclone. Three of the cars were car- 
ried above the treetops and came to the ground a per- 
fect wreck about eleven rods from the place where 
they were taken up. My injuries were very severe, 
I was so badly cut open that my bowels came out ; was 



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carried to a hotel where I received good care and medi- 
cal treatment. Finally I was sent to a hospital in 
St. Paul, Minn., where I remained thirteen months. 
While there I recovered so that I could be up and 
around some, although I suffered continually from 
hemorrhage of the bowels. Would often bleed until 
my strength was almost gone. I went to Grand Eapids, 
Mich., where I again consulted physicians, who told 
me that there was no help for me unless I had an opera- 
tion, and that might prove fatal. Before this took 
place, I heard of the faith prayer meetings being held 
in the city by Mrs. Griffin. I was led to attend the 
dedication of the Beulah Rest in February and also an 
especial meeting which was held in the morning after, 
for some who wished to receive the anointing. I was 
a Christian, but w r as in a very cold state, and as I heard 
the blessed truth there in regard to full an free salva- 
tion for both soul and body, I realized as I never before 
had the importance of being wholly the Lord's, and 
getting where I could believe His Word and trust His 
power alone to deliver both soul and body. Accord- 
ingly I gave myself anew to God to be filled with 
His life and love and power. I received the anointing 
and had prayer offered for my recovery. Immediately 
I was conscious of the healing power of Jesus in both 
soul and body. Glory be to His name! The pain, 
soreness and hemorrhage entirely left my body, and I 
felt a mighty baptism of the spirit filling my soul with 
joy unspeakable and full of glory. I can truly say 
that my Lord hath wrought a perfect cure, for I have 
never since been troubled w^ith the injuries I received 
in that cyclone. 
After this I went to Fort Wayne, Ind., where I was 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 139 

suddenly seized with a stroke of paralysis. They 
thought I was going to die, and sent for my children 
living in Chicago. They came and insisted upon my 
haying a doctor, but I told them no, I could not, as 
I was looking to Jesus to heal me. After my faith was 
severely tested for a few days, I was raised up in answer 
to united prayer offered at "Beulah" for me. I was 
well again until the summer following, when our city 
was visited by a malignant form of typhoid fever, which 
for some time carried off from twenty to twenty-four 
each week. I was stricken down with the same fever, 
with which I was sick eighteen days. I was brought 
right down to death's door. I sent word to "Beulah" 
of my illness and requested prayers for my recovery. 
Just as soon as Mrs. Griffin received my request, she 
called the family together and prayed for me, and at 
that very hour the fever left me and I fell into a sweet 
sleep. I awoke free, and soon gained my strength so 
that I could go about my usual work again. The great 
spiritual blessings that have been given me since I 
gave my body to the Lord are more than I can express. 
In all my many trials and tests my soul has been kept 
in perfect peace. And I find such a delightful rest and 
joy in being able to trust in the "living God." 



Mrs. Esther Hufford, N. Grand Bapids. 

"Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within 
me bless His holy name." 

For many years I had the asthma and tried many 
remedies, but found nothing to cure me until I came 
to Jesus. Through the prayers of Mrs. Griffin I was 
healed instantly. 



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Sister H. wishes to add to her testimony: 

After all these years I want to say for the glory of 
God, He has kept me. Twice I have been unable to 
walk from rheumatism, and was instantly healed while 
Brother and Sister Dudley anointed me. 



Mrs. Susan E. Miller, Grand Eapids. — Healed 
through faith; praise God for it. When I was twelve 
years of age I felt the need of a new heart. I asked 
God for it and He gave it to me. I am now forty-six 
years old, and oh how wonderfully the Lord has led 
me. I must say there is nothing so grand and glorious 
as to know we are of God's chosen ones. When I came 
to Grand Eapids five years ago I became acquainted 
with Bev. S. B. Shaw^ and his very worthy wife. I saw 
them live by faith alone for all things, both spiritual 
and temporal; and of them I learned how to consecrate 
myself wholly unto the Lord. 

I had been afflicted with rheumatism from a child, 
and had spent large sums of money for my recovery, 
but could only find relief for a few weeks at a time. I 
was sick and helpless in bed with inflammatory rheu- 
matism, when I heard through Mrs. Shaw of Mrs. Dora 
Griffin. I sent for her to anoint me; after she had 
done so and while she was praying for my recovery, 
the Lord touched my body and I was healed that very 
same hour and have never been troubled with it since, 
praise God. One year after, the piles came upon me, 
and I suffered greatly with this. After trying many 
remedies and doctors without relief, I said, The Lord 
has healed me and He will heal me again; so I went 



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to "Beulah," and after prayer and anointing I was 
healed and went home saved and happy, both soul and 
body, praise His name forever. 

Dear friends, you who are sick of sin and sick in 
body, come to Jesus and be healed, soul and body. 

"Beulah" is a good place to learn of God's dealings 
with man. 



Mrs. Critchlow, of Cannonsburg, Mich., writes, Jan- 
uary 18, 1888: My little son, eight years of age, had 
become very deaf from catarrh, with a rumbling and 
roaring sound in his head. Special prayer was offered 
for him at "Beulah." In a few days his hearing was 
entirely restored. This was nine months ago. He has 
had hard colds since but has never been deaf. All 
praise to God. 



Mrs. E. A. Adams, Kockford, Mich. — I have been an 
invalid for forty years from a complication of diseases. 
Have not been able to walk alone for ten years. I heard 
of the Faith work at Grand Rapids and wrote to Mrs. 
Griffin asking prayers. She answered they would join 
me in prayer at a certain time. I should lay aside all 
human means and trust "Jesus only." I laid aside my 
medicine with God's help. I could not do this alone, 
and was blessed in a gradual way. I afterward sent 
for Mrs. Griffin to come and administer the anointing. 
I was spiritually blessed, but improved slowly physi- 
cally. I soon gathered strength from the Lord to go 
to "Beulah" with the aid of one crutch ; this, however, 
I only used twice after reaching there. I was greatly 
blessed in every way, and when I returned after a few 



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days' stay I left my crutch as a memento of God's great 
goodness to me. I was met at the carriage to be assist- 
ed into the house. I stepped out alone and walked into 
the house while they were looking for my crutch. 
Neighbors said, "That cannot be Mrs. Adams walking 
that way." I praise God that it was, and I am rejoic- 
ing in an increasing amount of the precious resurrec- 
tion life of Christ for soul and body. My soul sings 
praises to Him as the days go by, and in the place of 
the oft repeated "Oh dear" I now say "Praise the Lord." 
My mother was very fond of snuff and used it many 
years. I have had from my earliest recollection a love 
which amounted to a passion for it transmitted to me, 
and I used it with her, have kept it by me and used it 
freely for over forty years; it did seem to me that I 
could not live without it. I have tried many, many 
times to give it up, and each time failed. Now with 
God's help I have laid it upon the altar. I pray this 
testimony may help some other bound souls to give up 
their evil habits, in His name and strength and by His 
power. 

Truly this dear one hath renewed her youth. She 
is now living on borrowed time and appears much 
younger than when her testimony was given, eight 
years ago. She is full of praises to her Lord that He 
so wonderfully preserves her. — [Ed.] 



A. 0. Barkley, Crosby, Mich. — I consider it a pleasure 
to add my testimony with the rest and tell what the 
Lord has done for me. "I will praise thee forever, 
because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; 



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for it is good before thy saints." Psa. 52:9. In June, 
1884, while engaged in the grocery business in Reed 
Cit} T , Michigan, 1 lifted a large cake of ice to the top 
of my butter cupboard somewhat higher than my head, 
and in doing so I exerted my whole strength and felt 
something give way in my intestines. I immediately 
commenced running down, soon being unable to be 
on my feet any length of time, and in August was very 
sick. I consulted physicians, who pronounced it a 
strain or rupture of the intestine connecting the larger 
with the smaller, and inflammation set in and the inner 
coating passed off and formed a stricture. From that 
time until July, 1885, I doctored with three of the best 
physicians of Eeed City and one of the best in Grand 
Eapids, without any material benefit. My wife was 
obliged to take almost entire charge of the business. 
Although living in rooms adjoining the store, I was 
not able to get in there sometimes for weeks. 

My wife came home from prayer meeting one night 
in July and said there was a stranger at the meeting, 
a lady who believed the sick could be healed in answer 
to prayer. I said I should like to see her, and the 
more I thought about it the more I thought it might be 
true. Soon after she called on me, and after hearing 
her reasons for believing as she did I asked her to pray 
with and for me. We all prayed that I might be healed. 
The Lord came graciously near and enabled me to grasp 
the promise, Jas. 5:15, "The prayer of faith shall save 
the sick and the Lord shall raise him up/' and I felt 
that I was better. This was on Friday, and on Tuesday 
she called again and prayed with me and told me that 
she w r ould be glad to see me at a prayer meeting in 
another part of the town about half a mile away, on 



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Thursday afternoon. When the time came I could 
hardly have faith enough to think that I, who had 
hardly walked two blocks at a time for eleven months, 
could now walk a half a mile and back, but it seemed 
that the Lord kept saying, "Go tell what I have done 
for you." So I started, but went out of the back door 
for fear my clerk would see me and laugh at me. To 
my surprise, I had not gone over a block before I 
experienced a strange sensation that is difficult to 
describe. It seemed to me that I could feel the strength 
coming right into my body. I shall never forget the 
feeling. I walked up and did "tell what He had done 
for me," and came back without fatigue. From that 
time I went about my business feeling quite well until 
the first of September, when I had an attack of dysen- 
tery, and although the Lord had so wonderfully helped 
me before I thought I must call a doctor, and after 
so doing I seemed to lose the faith I formerly had. 
And my later experience is that I cannot pray with so 
good faith while using remedies, knowing that when 

well I will be likely to give all the credit to Dr. , 

or if not, the people will think so, anyway, thus robbing 
Him of the glory. I was very sick, the doctor coming 
sometimes three times a day. But after a time I began 
to gain, and by November was able to attend to my 
business some. About December 1st I sold out and 
came to this place and gained strength slowly until I 
felt quite comfortable, but still obliged to be careful 
and always a slave to medicine. In June I again over- 
did in some way, still being in the grocery business, 
and my old difficulty came back. I again had recourse 
to the physician in Grand Eapids, in whom I had so 
much confidence, and he treated me for several months, 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 145 

but I received but very little benefit from anything, 
and the last of September had another attack of dysen- 
tery. I then employed another very skillful physician, 
who cured me of the dysentery, but the old difficulty 
remained, and although taking three or four kinds of 
medicine, I was confined to the house, and a good part 
of the time to my couch, until February, sometimes 
thinking I was a little better, but still not able to stand 
on my feet any length of time. 

In February I went to Muskegon for a visit, my 
friends thinking the change would do me good. The 
trip tired me and I grew worse instead of better, and 
my sister-in-law called in her physician, who was con- 
sidered very skillful, who after an investigation seemed 
to agree with the others as to what ailed me, but 
thought medical skill could never perform a cure, so 
I could ever be able to stand on my feet much; said 
the difficulty was so far inside that outward applica- 
tions could do but little, and so remote that it was 
difficult to keep the inflammation down with medicine, 
thus caused by food passing through the strictured in- 
testine, and that he did not care to undertake the case. 

But for about tw r o months back something within 
had kept telling me that I ought to seek some higher 
power for my healing, and I had studied my Bible on 
this point, and some passages, especially James 5:14-16, 
looked very plain to me, and on my way home I stopped 
at Grand Rapids to spend a few days with friends 
there, and took the opportunity to call upon Sister B. T. 
Parish, who is a believer in prayer cure, and I believed 
to be a Christian of great faith, and told her that I 
believed if she Avould pray for me it would do me good; 
but she advised me to see Mrs. Dora Griffin at the 



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"Beulak" Home, and with iny consent took me to "Beu- 
lak," wkere, after giving my reasons for coming, Sister 
Griffin gave ker reasons for believing wkat was spoken 
by Esaias, tke propket, and quoted in Matt. 8:17: 
"Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses"; 
but it was an easy matter, for I already believed. For 
in reading I kad found among otker tkings, 1 Cor. 6:9: 
"Wkat? know ye not that your body is the temple of 
the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, 
and ye are not your own?" and I felt that if I was really 
a Christian and that if my body was a temple in which 
His Spirit dwelt, that He would not wish to see it all 
run down and out of order, any more than people would 
wish to see their dwellings in disorder. And the more I 
studied, the stronger I became in the belief that the 
Saviour considered the healing of the body an impor- 
tant work. Mark 6:5: "And He could there do no 
mighty work save that He laid His hands on a few 
sick folk and kealed them." And from Matt. 15:32: 
"Then called Jesus His disciples unto Him and said, 
I have compassion on the multitude because they con- 
tinue with me now these three days and have nothing 
to eat, and I will not send them away fasting lest they 
faint by the way." And from the preceding verses I 
learned that the Saviour had compassion on people for 
their bodily ailments as well as spiritual. 

And from Heb. 13:8: "Jesus Christ the same yester- 
day, to-day and forever." I felt that the prayer of 
faith would save the sick. And I asked ker for prayer 
and anointing, according to James 5:14, wkick I re- 
ceived and went my way. Tkis was tke last day of 
February, about eleven montks ago. Tkat day I had 
been having a cold-water pack and was taking tkree 



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kinds of medicine, but from that time laid aside all rem- 
edies and have not taken a mouthful of medicine since, 
but began to recover. My recovery this time was more 
of a gradual gain than before, taking several weeks 
before I became really comfortable. Although having 
had so much trouble with my bowels on account of 
the disease, I cannot remember any eleven months 
when they have been more regular than the past. I 
had been reduced so long that my digestion became 
impaired, which very soon became regulated, and I 
could eat anything I wished without feeling any incon- 
venience. And by the middle of April I felt that I 
was "at the wheel" again, feeling a little weak; but 
by the first of June I felt first rate and have been well 
ever since, and now go ahead with my work, some days 
doing what w r ould be a hard day's work for anybody, 
except that I do not lift heavy articles, such as oil 
or sugar barrels, by advice of friends, and partly 
through fear of straining myself again. But I feel well 
and lack only two pounds of my heaviest weight, and 
have not worn either bandage or truss (one of which I 
wore for two years) for about ten months. 

To you, Sister Griffin, who have been the agent in 
God's hands of leading me in the way of truth, I would 
say: "Now the God of peace that brought again from 
the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the 
sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 
make you perfect in every good work to do His will 
working in you that which is well pleasing in His 
sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever 
and ever. Amen." Heb. 13:20, 21. 

Many have heard our brother testify, especially in 
the last year of his life, how perfectly the Lord had 



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kept hiru during the eight years since his healing, and 
that he had strength to lift and do all that any man 
of his size could do. 

The following extract from a short biography read 
at his funeral service shows something of his subse- 
quent experience: 

"In three months' time (from February, 1887) he was 
well, and from that day to the time of his death never 
took a drop of medicine, and with the exception of one 
severe attack of erysipelas, for which he used no reme- 
dies, and an occasional cold, he was always well and 
strong till within a few days of his departure, when he 
was stricken with pneumonia Sunday afternoon. The 
final summons came the following Tuesday. His wife, 
realizing that he was very sick and knowing the opin- 
ion of people in general, asked him, 'If you should be- 
come very sick and unconscious, shall I call a physi- 
cian?" Looking up with a smile he said, 'What for?' 
and that if the Lord did not help him the doctor could 
not. 

"Monday afternoon after he became unable to speak 
he was asked if he wanted a physician. With a smile 
in his eyes he shook his head. Asked if his trust was 
in Jesus, he nodded in assent. 

"Great as was the physical blessing in these years, 
it was not to be compared to the deep spiritual experi- 
ence which this reliance on the Lord brought to him, 
the consciousness of God's individual care for him. 

"And now — 'he is absent from the body,' but we truly 
believe 'present with the Lord.' " 



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Mrs. C. B. Jameson, 62 Brainard street, Grand Rapids. 
— About two years ago I was stricken down with par- 
alysis. In eight weeks I had a second shock worse 
than the first. For three months I was nearly help- 
less, my right shoulder drooped an inch or two, and my 
arm hung perfectly helpless at my side. There was a 
constant roaring and clashing in my head like the work- 
ing of heavy machinery. 

My eyelids were so weak I could only partially open 
my eyes. My Avhole nervous system was so prostrated 
that the least movement or noise caused the greatest 
distress. While in this wretched condition my friend 
Mrs. Cutler, who had been attending the faith prayer 
meetings, brought Mrs. Dora Griffin to see me, I de- 
cided to give up my medicine and physician, and trust 
my case entirely in the hands of the great Physican 
Jesus. I received the anointing, James 5:14, 15, after 
which Mrs. Griffin said to me: "In the name of Jesus 
lift your hand." Immediately I raised my hand to my 
head. All the distress left my head in an instant. My 
eyes, shoulder and side became natural and strong, so 
that in a very short time I was able to do my house- 
work. 

During the month of August, 1887, I suffered from 
dysentery, which reduced me very much. Before I 
had recovered from this I had three severe shocks of 
paralysis, which followed one another in quick succes- 
sion. When Mrs. Griffin came I was so sore I could not 
bear the weight of a sheet over my body. After prayer 
the pain and soreness instantly left me. During this 
sickness I came very near death. I thought my hour 
had come, and asked Mrs. Griffin to pray for me that 
I might have dying grace. She said she could not offer 



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that prayer, as she did not feel that my work was done. 
I soon became cold and rigid, and sank into a state of 
unconsciousness, and to all human appearance I was 
dying. My eyes were fixed, and a death pallor and cold 
perspiration spread over me, my breath grew less fre- 
quent and shorter, my pulse was nearly gone. This 
continued about ten minutes. Mrs. Griffin anointed 
me and claimed the promises. When I became con- 
scious I had no power to speak for nearly an hour. I 
had scarcely recovered from this when I was seized 
with a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism, 
which remained about two weeks. I was always re- 
lieved and found rest in answer to prayer and fully 
recovered without any medicine, and I give all praise 
to Jesus, who is my life and deliverer. 

I shall be glad to see anyone who wishes to call upon 
me, or answ T er any correspondence if stamp is enclosed. 
I am well and happy in the Lord. 



Mrs. Dora Griffin: This is to certify that I have had 
a weak back and kidney troubles for several years, and 
have been entirely cured by the prayer of faith adminis- 
tered by you, and I feel that I have received the new 
birth of the soul in the image of Christ also. 

Yours in the love of Jesus, 

C. L. Peck. 
Coopersville, Mich., Feb. 24, 1888. 



Dear Sister in Jesus: When I was at "Beulah" I re- 
quested prayer for our little daughter. I will tell you 



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of her condition. She was afflicted with bladder disease 
so that she had no control over her urine, either day or 
night. She would wet her bed very badly, and her 
clothes would have to be changed quite often. We 
could not take her to church or Sunday school on ac- 
count of it. 

She was in this condition over two years, and was 
treated by four physicians without any permanent re- 
lief. Thank the Lord she is now well. Through the 
prayer of faith she was healed. She has not w^et her 
clothes in four months, so we feel safe in saying that 
she is cured. 

In the Lord, 
Mr. W. H. Lintz. 

Constantine, Mich., March 5, 1888. 



Lyman H. Wilmot, Deerfield, 111., June 26, '95. 

"Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord." 

"Four years ago to-day Sister Dora Dudley, of Grand 
Eapids, Mich., came to my home in response to my call 
as per James 5:14. At that time I had been unable to 
walk for three years without the aid of crutches, or of 
crutch and cane. 

In August, 1887, I severely injured the ligament un- 
der the cap of my right knee. I was at that time living 
alone on a ranch at Evergreen, Colo. I suffered a good 
deal with it for some two or three weeks, when I began 
to improve slowly, and after two months' time I did 
not notice it much in walking, but it was very sensitive 
and often got hurt. In December, 1887, I came east 
to my old home in Deerfield, 111. On March 10, 1888, 
I again hurt my knee. This time it grew rapidly worse, 



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and in four days it was badly swollen and inflamed. 
Dr. Weston, of Chicago, advised me to keep still, and 
wrap it up in flannels wrung out of hot water. I fol- 
lowed his advice, but with little if any improvement. 
My business called me out upon the road, riding, and 
greatly irritated my knee and made it worse; it con- 
tinued to grow worse until I was unable to get around 
without much suffering. 

I had for some years believed in "Divine Healing," 
and I entreated the Lord to heal me of this affliction, 
but did not comply with His word as I should have done. 
Over three months passed in this way, w x hen I consulted 
a physician, who prescribed an ointment which I was 
to use for one week; if not better by that time, he would 
put my leg in splints to keep the knee joint still. The 
ointment greatly increased the inflammation, and the 
doctor came, bound up my knee, and kept it bound for 
thirty days; by this time my limb looked like a skele- 
ton, while the knee appeared as before. 

Months passed. I had a council of physicians; they 
talked of tapping my knee, and several times came pre- 
pared to do so, but I trusted the dear Lord to guide and 
order this matter, and each time the operation was 
postponed. 

After the splint was taken off it was found that a vein, 
under the knee, had been injured by being too tightly 
drawn over the brass splint, so that when my foot was 
let down on the floor it would fill with blood and be- 
come purple in two minutes. The ankle became so 
badly swollen and so painful that suppuration was 
feared, and continued in this condition for three months. 
During this time I discontinued all medical attendance 
and looked to the Lord alone to heal me. Soon after this 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 153 

my left knee began to feel weak, and in a short time 
gave out entirely, and became worse than the other had 
been at any time. Twenty months rolled by, with 
ever increasing bondage, and afflictions multiplying. 

During all this time I had been searching the Scrip- 
tures daily and found so much comfort and blessing 
that I did not feel the time was lost; but now there 
came a sudden and great change — one so unlooked for, 
that my God and Saviour should suffer my eyes to be 
smitten; I had been using them in obedience to His 
command, "Search the Scriptures." I had to be shut 
up in a dark room for over sixteen months. My eyes 
were so sensitive to the light that I could only glance 
at the green grass or trees. A white handkerchief, 
or even my hands in a dark room, would greatly in- 
crease my suffering. 

In February, 1891, the Christian Alliance published 
an account of several remarkable cases of healing in 
Michigan, where Mr. and Mrs. Dudley had been called 
to pray with and anoint the sick ones. 

I informed my pastor, Kev. 0. N. Dubs, of the Pres- 
byterian Church, that I desired to comply with God's 
word, James 5:14, 15. Some weeks later, at a conven- 
tion of the Christian Alliance, Brother Dubs met Sister 
Dudley and invited her to visit me. She came and 
anointed me in the name of the Lord, taking from my 
eyes the heavy blue goggles I had worn so many months. 
We also claimed the promise of our dear Lord, found in 
Matt. 18:19. After the anointing service and prayer I 
was left alone. Those were hours of trial and testing 
that will never be forgotten. 

I had not borne the light of day for more than six- 
teen months, and had not walked for three years, I 



154 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

must do both now. I had complied with God's word 
to the sick; had taken a definite step. Now I must 
obey God when He called me by the Spirit so tenderly 
and lovingly; bringing this Scripture to my mind contin- 
ually, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up 
and walk." Oh, the struggle of those hours! How 
could I walk? I had tried once before without comply- 
ing with the Word, and utterly failed, and suffered so 
much more for months because of the rash act. 

Oh, how the enemy tried to detain and entertain me, 
to hinder me from obeying the call of God, but the Lord 
helped me to obey the Spirit's voice. I arose to my 
feet and walked, and have walked every day since. For 
weeks, it was a moment by moment, trusting God for 
strength to bear the light. I never again put on those 
dark glasses. 

God is always ready to do His part, when we take 
Him at His word, "Without Me ye can do nothing." 
This was one of the great lessons I had to learn during 
my sickness. It is so hard for us to think that we are 
nothing and can do nothing. The very faith to take 
God at His word is divine, is not a plan of earth. We 
must look to, and trust Him for it, who is the author 
and finisher of our faith. 

In conclusion, will say, I have been working a large 
farm for three years, doing all kinds of work, trusting 
Jesus every day. I have often felt the truth of our 
Lord's words, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but 
by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of 
God." 

I would like to say to all sick and suffering ones, "Fix 
your eyes upon Jesus; take Him at His word, and you 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 155 

will find it true, 'Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and 
to-day and forever.' " Heb. 13 :8. 

Yes, healing is in the atonement, and it is for who- 
soever will come and do His will. 

Blessed be the name of the Lord forever. 



Miss Rachel Sterling (now Mrs. Arnold), Matron of 
the Orphans' Home, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 9, 1895. 
— I wish to add my testimony to the Lord's goodness in 
answering prayer for me in so many ways. 

I had been a Christian for many years, but did not 
understand how to come to the Lord in the prayer of 
faith, until I met at "Beulah," Grand Bapids, Mich., 
dear Sister Dudley, and read Miss Judd's book, "The 
Prayer of Faith." From that time I have prayed with 
more courage, zeal and understanding, believing God 
means what He says. 

My first experience in Divine Healing was that of a 
felon on my finger. I was just like a little child learn- 
ing to walk, but God honored my trust and the finger 
was healed. I had trouble with my eyes and suffered 
with them for years, While I was at "Beulah" the 
prayer of faith was offered, and they were healed that 
very night. I laid aside the glasses I had worn fifteen 
years, and have not used them since, now nearly seven 
years. 

I have seen the conversion of dear ones in my own 
home, also friends whom God has given me saved and 
healed through united prayer. 

I gave the little book, "Beulah," to an old gentleman 
who had suffered from asthma twenty years, and while 
reading it he was healed. 



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A hard swelling came in my throat which nearly 
choken me; it appeared outside, half the size of a hen's 
egg. On my way to Utah I went to "Beulah," w T as 
anointed and prayed for. The enlargement disappeared 
and I have never felt it since. 

I scarcely know where to begin telling of the answers 
to prayer for myself and others since coming to the Or- 
phans' Home. I have been here over three years; dur- 
ing that time we have been safely carried through all 
the contagious diseases which have come. Two chil- 
dren were healed directly in answer to united prayer. 
All have been raised up, and none left with any troubles 
such as usually follow. Physicians and neighbors 
acknowledge the hand of God. 

In our great need the means was given, in answer to 
prayer, enabling us to have a chimney built, costing 
nearly one hundred dollars. The house was new, but 
the chimney was badly constructed, and the rooms were 
filled with smoke for months, but Ave prayed and the 
money came. Another direct answer which always 
makes my heart rejoice I will briefly state for the bene- 
fit of those who think the dear Lord takes no note of our 
temporal affairs. He has promised to supply all our 
needs, and in this case our need was pressing. I went 
to my room; told Him He knew all about it, and asked 
Him to make it possible for our washing to be done at 
the laundry. That evening the proprietor of a laundry 
came to our president and proposed terms which were 
accepted; now for over two years it has been done for 
less than one-third of the regular price. 

While passing through trials which, I believe, would 
have crushed me but for the help of God, I sent for 
united prayers to the friends of the Christian Alliance 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 157 

in New York and to the Beulah Home. It seemed that 
I could not live through these trials, and that they 
would never end, but grew to a white heat, yet He sat 
as the refiner, and precious lessons were burned into 
my soul, that perhaps I could or would not have learned 
any other way. 

I had a very dear friend wonderfully saved from 
death and healed in mind and body, preserved through 
trials, and in the midst of difficulties that to human 
appearances were insurmountable, financial aid com- 
ing when despair was settling upon her heart. Her 
gratitude could not find expression. 

I have learned that God is greater than our circum- 
stances, if we will take victory above them and trust 
Him. He is good to all who put their trust in Him. 



Mr. George Spencer, N. Grand Rapids. — I had in- 
flammation in my eyes; was blind for six months. My 
best eye was taken out. The inflammation was so bad 
in the other that I could not see. The doctor said that 
if I had any business to do I should have to do it blind. 
I went to a gospel meeting at the Union depot, and there 
I met a lady who told me where I could go to get my 
sight. I went to Mrs. Dudley, and she told me Jesus 
would give me sight. She prayed for me and anointed 
me in the name of the Lord. I could see at once, and 
my eye continued to grow stronger. I have done busi- 
ness for nine years. I am past seventy years of age. 

All glory to Jesus. 



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Mrs. Etta Orton, Moline, Mich., September 25, >95. 

"The Lord hath done wondrous things for me whereof 
I am glad." 

I want to give my testimony of Jesus' power to heal 
and keep. More than six years ago Jesus took this 
poor, sick, nervous body, and gave me a sound, healthy 
one, and I have had perfect health ever since. Praise 
His blessed name! In His great goodness He has not 
allowed any sickness to come upon me, but has kept me 
by His mighty power. My heart is full of praise and 
thankfulness for the great blessings that have come 
to me through Beulah Home. Ever since my childhood 
I have had diseases of the stomach and liver, and have 
suffered extremely from vicarious menstruation by the 
bladder. Weaknesses were brought upon me while 
standing upon my feet clerking. For fourteen years 
one sickness after another came upon me until I did 
not see a well day, and do not believe there was a sound 
organ in my body. I tried many remedies, getting 
little or no relief. When I had nearly given up all 
hope of ever being well again, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley 
were called to our town to hold meetings in the hall. 
I went and listened to every word, then went home to 
search my Bible to see for myself if it read as it was 
given, and to fall on my knees before God seeking to 
know if it was His will for me to look to Him for my 
healing. I was blessed in a wonderful manner as I 
inquired of Him; still I could not make up my mind to 
be anointed, thinking it must take a great amount of 
faith, and fearing I should fail and dishonor my Lord, 
not knowing that all Jesus requires is perfect obedi- 
ence and trust. I prayed many times that night for 
more faith, and to be directed in the right way. At 



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last it was clear to me that I must use the faith I had 
and trust His word, knowing that the blessed Savior 
would not require of me anything I could not do. I 
determined if the dear Lord would give me strength to 
get to meeting the next evening I would go forward 
and be anointed in His name. I went, was anointed 
in the name of Jesus and was healed of all my dis- 
eases. All praise to the great Physician! Now 
for over six years I have been a well woman. The Lord 
has given me three beautiful little daughters to gladden 
our lives. Glory to His name! 



Mrs. Margaret Lattin, Cob Moo Sa, Oceana Co., 
Mich., May 13, 1895. — I can testify to the power of Jesus 
as an all-sufficient Savior and Physician. For the past 
five years He alone has been my Healer. Previous to 
that time I had a three years' sickness from spinal trou- 
ble, nervous prostration, and very serious uterine dis- 
placement, enlargement and inflammation, with all the 
attending distresses. And I had doctored continually, 
having the best of medical aid, which only relieved the 
symptoms temporarily, but they would keep returning 
faster than medicine would conquer them, until 1 almost 
despaired of ever being able to do without medicine or 
be out from under doctor's care. After having spent 
all my money, the savings of years from school teach- 
ing, I was at a loss to know what to try next. 

But I asked the Lord to direct me, and in a few weeks 
Mrs. Dora Dudley came to our village and taught Jesus 
as our Physician. It was the first I had ever heard the 
good news, and the truth sank deeply into my heart. I 



160 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

felt convinced that this was the way the Lord was lead- 
ing me. Immediately I gave up all my remedies and 
trusted Jesus alone. He at once took all of my symp- 
toms, and soothed them one by one, as they arose from 
time to time, and my strength came gradually. Blessed 
Jesus! 

In about a year I was married and took charge of 
housekeeping on a farm. I feel that my strength comes 
from a higher source just as I need it. It is such a re- 
lief to be free from medicine. 

God has given me two healthy little boys who have 
never tasted medicine. We have never used it in our 
home, and have never had to call a doctor. To God 
alone be all the praise! 

In the birth of my younger child I am a wonder to 
all who know me. On the day before he was born I did 
my housework as usual, retired at night, and slept 
soundly until after midnight, when I awakened with a 
little pain. I at once spoke to my husband, w T ho arose, 
dressed, lighted the fire, and called my aunt, wiio occu- 
pied an adjoining room. She dressed as quickly as pos- 
sible, and while she was coming into my room the baby 
was born without even the slightest groan from me. 
My husband said it was not more than ten or fifteen 
minutes after I awoke him. Baby weighed nine pounds 
and six ounces. We had a blessed time of praise. 

For the glory of our prayer-answering God, I would 
add another testimony. 

Eleven years ago my father, D. L. Bipenburg, after a 
summer of hard work on the farm and poor crops in the 
fall, commenced mourning over the hard times until he 
fell into a state of melancholy insanity. He gave up 
all interest in everything; could not be persuaded to 



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do the smallest chore, much of the time refusing to eat, 
or to rise from bed, and slept but very little. 

He moaned and groaned all the time, and thought 
that he was just at the point of death. After terrible 
trial with him for two years my poor mother sent him 
to the asylum for the insane, in Kalamazoo, hoping that 
he would be cured there. 

But they could give us no encouragement that he 
would ever be any better. In a short time he was re- 
moved to the new asylum at Traverse City. Here the 
opinion was just the same, that his was a hopeless case, 
and would never be any better. He remained there 
nine years. But last year it came to me that he might 
be healed in answer to prayer, for with the Lord all 
things are possible. I began to hold him before the 
Lord in prayer, and also sent a request to the Beulah 
Faith Home, Grand Eapids, that he might be prayed 
for. In the fall the superintendent wrote to us that 
there had been a surprising and unlooked for change 
in my father. His health had become good, he was 
interested in all his surroundings, walked out daily, 
read much, and attended church, which he had not done 
before since he was there. Then he became anxious 
to get home again. The doctors did not know how to 
account for the change. But I praise the Lord, the 
victory is all His. He alone hath wrought the change, 
and the prayers of God's children in the faith have been 
wonderfully answered. Glory to His name! 

Mother sent for father to come home, and all winter 
he has continued well, helping her with the work, and 
now this spring he is greatly interested in making gar- 
den, and often takes a drive to see some of his old neigh- 
bors. We trust that the Lord will continue to keep 



162 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

his mind and body in health, and that his last days 
may be his best days. He is now sixty-two years of 
age. 

We quote from one of Mrs. Lattin's letters the fol- 
lowing : 

"Mrs. Skinner in this neighborhood is well. Emma 
Seymour, of Hesperia, does her own work. Mrs. Bas- 
sett is just the picture of health. All healed by the 
Lord, under your anointing. My own dear husband has 
not taken medicine since we were married, and he says 
he was never so well as now. Aunt Martha Croft's ear 
has remained well ever since its healing, and her hear- 
ing, which had been much impaired, entirely restored. 
All redness and hardness have disappeared/' 



Extracts from letters by D. E. Croff, of Hesperia, 
Mich.: 

March 1, 1892. 

I have been talking with Mrs. Lattin upon Divine 
Healing, and feel that I need more light. But what I 
most desire is healing for my mother's ear, which has 
been afflicted for fifty years. It is a terrible looking 
thing; for five years it has discharged almost continu- 
ally a very offensive pus; it is badly swollen and in- 
flamed. Her ear, the side of her face and neck have 
become a solid scab. Some doctors have said it was 
erysipelas; others pronounce it cancer. I have been 
thinking of taking her to the Medical and Surgical In- 
stitute at Ann Arbor, but I believe God can heal it. 
Will you join me in prayer for her? 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 163 

May 31, 1892. 

Your letter received within a few moments of the 
time you named to pray for mother. We knelt and 
prayed, and God came into our hearts in a wonderful 
manner. Mother ventured to trust Him to heal her 
ear, and took Him for her Physician. Since then her 
ear has improved constantly; the roaring in her head 
and all discharge from the sore have ceased; the sore- 
ness has disappeared. It is all well as far as feeling is 
concerned, only a little redness remains. 

Oh, praise our God! 



Mrs. Marian Skinner, Cob Moo Sa, Mich., July 7, 1895. 
— I had been in poor health for twenty-six years. For 
ten long months before my healing I could not stand 
upon my feet because of paralysis and other troubles. 
During this time, all through the heat of the summer, 
my feet and limbs were so cold, warm bricks were kept 
constantly about me. I had the best physicians we 
could get, but grew worse until I could take no more 
medicine. 

Praise God! Help was sent me from our Heavenly 
Physician, through Sister Dora Dudley, of Grand Eap- 
ids, October 29, 1889, who, after listening to a recital of 
my distresses, greatly surprised me by asking if I knew 
I had been telling of the devil's works? 

She then gave me a Bible lesson. The Holy Spirit 
made it very plain to me. I had my medicine all cleared 
away from the room, and she, with Elder Wells, of Hes- 
peria, anointed me according to James 5:14. I was 
raised up immediately. My sister brought my clothes, 



164 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

and with a very little help in the strength of the Lord 
I put them on. 

With Sister Dudley walking by my side repeating 
the words, "Step by step, in Jesus' name. Blessed Je- 
sus !" I walked to my chair at the table, and ate dinner 
with my loved ones, for the first time in ten months, 
eating the same heart} 7 food the others ate. 

Soon I rode ten miles in a lumber wagon, and sat up 
until ten o'clock at night visiting my friends. For days 
I was filled with the power of God and the fullness of 
the Spirit. I felt as though I must go from house to 
house and tell what the Lord had done for me. There 
was no keeping still; I had to tell it to everyone I 
saw. 

I thank Thee, kind Heavenly Father, for Thy chosen 
ones. May Thy blessing ever rest upon the Beulah 
Home, and dear Sister Dudley, who is doing so much 
in the name of Thy Son, to relieve poor suffering hu- 
manity. 

All glory to that name! 



Mr. W. P. Smith, Grand Eapids, Mich. — Almost my 
earliest recollections are of the Sabbath school where 
I learned to reverence the Bible as a divinely inspired 
book. I believed it to be true as I understood it, but 
my understanding of it was very limited, because my 
knowledge of it was very limited. 

I gave my heart to God when about sixteen years of 
age, and then studied the Bible about as the ordinary 
Christian does to-day. I believed in the miracles that 
Jesus performed, but supposed they were for a certain 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 165 

purpose, and confined to a certain time, and for the ben- 
efit of only the few who received their benefit at that 
time, and at the hands of Jesus in person. 

In 1863 I had a slight attack of inflammation in my 
eyes, which was followed by others at different periods, 
and sometimes very severe, until finally ulceration of 
the cornea was the result. I employed the best doc- 
tors and oculists, spending much time and money, but 
growing worse all the time, until I was pronounced a 
hopeless case. Sometimes I would be quite well, and 
then my eyes would ulcerate again, and for a time I 
would be blind, and suffer the most excruciating pain, 
until I was compelled to resort to the use of morphine 
to deaden my nerves. This continued for more than 
twenty years, until my nervous system gave out, and I 
became a physical wreck, and without hope of human 
assistance any further than a little temporary relief at 
times. I never heard of what is now known as Divine 
Healing, or Jesus for the body, until about 1885, and 
when I did hear of it I only sneered at it, although for 
some years there had been a strange longing after God, 
and at times a faint hope would come into my heart, 
that somehow and at some time the Divine One would 
heal me, but all the time expecting it would be done 
through human agency. Oh, how we dishonor God 
when we limit His power to blessing of the poisonous 
drugs, which Satan makes us believe we ought to take 
into our systems to counteract the deadly virus which 
he succeeded in ejecting into our first parents in the 
garden of Eden. 

For God has provided, not a remedy, but the remedy 
in His Son Jesus Christ, for all sin and uncleanness, and 
the results thereof; for He declares that Himself took 



166 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

our infirmities and bare our sicknesses. Matt. 8:16, 17: 
And learning this fact after so many years of suffer- 
ing, I went to Beulah Home in Grand Eapids, Mich., 
and was anointed by Mrs. Dora Dudley according to 
James 5:14, nearly six years ago, and the blessed Lord 
verified His promise that "the prayer of faith shall save 
the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up." Glory to His 
name! 

I have been a well, strong man ever since, and the 
blessed Lord has used me as an instrument to carry 
this blessing to others. Not one drop of medicine have 
I taken, or have I put in my eyes, since that time, Jesus 
being my Physician for spirit, soul and body. Halle- 
lujah! 



Colonel C. W. Campbell, of the Christian Crusaders, 
Mt. Pleasant, Mich., September 17, 1895. — With an in- 
tense desire to please the Holy Ghost and to help exalt 
our precious Savior, I write these few lines of testi- 
mony. 

For eight years the Holy Ghost has been abiding with 
me. The knowledge that the precious blood cleanses 
from all sin is mine, and during this time I have wonder- 
fully enjoyed the experience of being wholly sanctified. 
My whole ambition has been to walk in the spirit and 
make my life a blessing to others. Four years ago this 
present month, through the faithful efforts of Sister 
Dora Dudley, I was led to see that it was my blessed 
privilege to have Jesus as my Physician, and to draw 
from Him each moment physical as well as spiritual 
health and strength. I do not think for a year I had 
seen one well day. Still I kept at the work to which 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 167 

the dear Lord called me, going from place to place try- 
ing to encourage the hearts of my comrades and help 
to lead sinners to Jesus. Oftentimes, one-half hour 
before meeting-time, I would be in bed so sick that I 
could scarcely raise my head. I would say, Now, Lord, 
I must go to meeting; help me and give me strength, 
and I would get up and go, but I could see that it would 
be but a short time before I would be entirely broken 
down and unable to work. I would use one kind of 
medicine, then another, but without the desired results. 
After listening to Sister Dudley's Bible reading and 
talk, I went to my room to take another dose of medi- 
cine, when the Lord asked me if I believed what I had 
been hearing. I replied, Of course I do, Lord, it is your 
own precious word, how can I help believing it? 
Again He said, Do you think it is for you? Yes, I re- 
plied, after a moment's thought. Why not accept Him 
now as your Physician? I said, I will, and immediately 
I stepped to the table and picked up the bottle of med- 
icine I had just paid one dollar for, and stepping out of 
doors, I poured it upon the ground, and while it was 
running out, praise God forever, I felt that distressing 
pain in my stomach go away. I was healed, never have 
I had one symptom of the disease since, and, Oh, how 
my whole being was filled with His gracious presence! 
Since that time I have had many trials of my faith, 
which have proven to me more precious than gold tried 
in the fire. I have only been privileged to visit "Beu- 
lah" three times, yet each of these have been a source 
of spiritual profit to me. Many of my comrades have 
gone to "Beulah," sick and worn out, and after a week's 
stay have returned to their work again strong and well. 
A few have gone there with diseases pronounced in- 



168 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

curable by physicians, and in a short time have re^ 
turned fully recovered. Of gold and silver we have had 
but little to offer, yet we have always been made to feel 
by Brother and Sister Dudley and those in charge that 
it was our Father's house, and have received a welcome 
which was not affected, but real, and our prayer shall 
ever be, Lord, make "Beulah" more of a blessing to man- 
kind than ever before. 



Miss Gertie Wright. — It is with praise to God that I 
write of what He has done for my daughter Gertie. In 
September, 1891, when she was about fifteen years of 
age, Gertie received a fall which injured her spine so 
severely that it caused St. Vitus' dance a few weeks 
later. Her health had not been good for some years 
before, and her mind had been over-taxed with study; 
therefore the fall seemed to affect her the more serious- 
ly. We took her to a physician in E. 

After a careful examination he said it would be 
months before she recovered; but he seemed to doubt 
her ever being well, and said she would never be able 
to study again, for her mind was as badly affected as 
her body. When she began the treatment she could 
walk, talk and feed herself, but she grew worse instead 
of better, and would often say, "I never can be better 
if I take medicine, for I believe the Lord would heal 
me." 

At this time we knew nothing of Divine Healing, only 
as we heard Major Campbell and his wife tell of Beulah 
Home, Grand Bapids, and some of the wonderful things 
the Lord had done for those who took Him as their 
physician. 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 169 

So I sought the Lord's direction; asking, that if He 
would rather have the glory of healing Gertie, I might 
know by the effect the medicine had upon her. If it 
was His will to heal her poor mind and body by His own 
mighty power, that the medicine should seem to make 
her worse, but if it was His will that we should use the 
means of earthly help within our reach, and ask His 
blessing upon means, that the remedies used might 
have the effect intended. 

The result was, she grew worse and worse. The doc- 
tor changed the medicines several times, yet without 
the least help from them, and he said he could not 
account for the way the medicine affected her. At one 
time just after taking it she became perfectly prostrate, 
unable to move any part of her body except her head. 

We knew her condition was critical. I saw that the 
Lord alone could heal her, but did not know how to come 
to Him for healing. Every one opposed her giving up 
taking medicine and trusting the Lord alone, so it re- 
quired a great deal of His help to do this. I asked 
the Lord that the way might be opened for me to take 
Gertie to "Beulah." 

She had not been dressed for nearly two weeks, at 
times could not speak, nor swallow her food. All said 
it was the worst case they ever saw. She was opposed 
to going, said she could be healed at home. I asked the 
Lord to strengthen, and make her willing, as it seemed 
His will she should go. All at once she expressed a 
willingness to go, and was enough better to be dressed 
and take the journey from Bannister, near Owosso, to 
Grand Bapids. It was nearly midnight, November 30, 
when we reached "Beulah," and that night, for the first 
time in many weeks, my poor girl had rest, and slept as 



170 SOME OP THE FRUITS OF 

peacefully as a child. On the second day at evening 
Sister Dudley anointed her in the name of Jesus, ac- 
cording to James 5:14, 15. The raging fever she had 
all through her sickness left her. From that hour she 
improved without treatment of any kind. The next 
day we went home. Gertie walked around and waited 
upon herself, yet nearly all my friends said,* "If she were 
healed by the Lord it would be an instantaneous and 
perfect healing, not such a slow process." I met with 
a great deal of discouraging talk from even the most 
earnest Christians. 

About the 6th of December we moved to another field 
of labor (we were then in the Crusade work); the jour- 
ney which Gertie took in a two-wheeled cart brought 
her down again worse than before. The terrible contor- 
tions of her body w^ere indescribable. When attempt- 
ing to seat herself in a chair, or to lie upon a couch, she 
would be thrown upon the floor or thrust uncontrolla- 
bly across the room. 

Even during sleep the perpetual, involuntary move- 
ments of nerves and muscles required much of my 
strength to hold her in bed. Then came a fight to keep 
the victory over all the opposition I had to encounter. 

Every one thought I was doing wrong not to employ 
a physician, although she was as much opposed to 
taking medicine as before, and when urged to do so 
said: "No, if the Lord wants me to get well, I shall get 
well, and if He w r ants me to die, I will die, without tak- 
ing medicine." 

And so again we went to "Beulah," where faith in God 
was strong. Immediately she began to improve; her 
spine, which had been curved, became perfectly 
straight, This time we staid a little over two weeks, 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 171 

The day we went home Gertie walked more than a 
mile; the awful jerking, twisting and unnatural move- 
ments of her body were nearly gone. In less than 
three months she had better health than before her fall. 
I have given only a meager account of the experience 
with our suffering daughter. 

I wish I were able to tell how wonderfully the Lord 
led me through it all, how he taught me to leave her in 
His hands without worry or anxiety, believing that He 
would do just right, and to say, "Thy will, O Lord, be 
done." 

For nearly tw r o j r ears Gertie has been working as 
compositor in a printing office, has enjoyed better 
health than for years before her sickness, and there are 
no signs of the dreadful diseases caused by her fall. 

Our Lord has all the glory! 

Mrs. A. M. Wright, 

Holly, Mich. 



Mrs. Henry Youngblood, Dowagiac, Mich., June 26, 
1895. — About six years ago I was lieutenant in charge 
of the West Side corps of the Salvation Army in Grand 
Rapids. I attended Mrs. Dudley's prayer meetings. I 
learned by her Bible instructions that Jesus was the 
Savior of the body. 

One year ago last winter I was, through my own 
prayers and alone with God, wonderfully and instantly 
healed of what I have reason to believe was a cancerous 
tumor. Before I went into the army work one Chris- 
tian doctor refused to fill out the certificate because of 
the weak, diseased condition of my lungs. 

After my first child was born I noticed a change in 



172 SOME OF THE FRUIT'S OF 

my lungs, which steadily grew worse, until consump- 
tion was fully developed. I was drawn over, and my 
chest sunken in. I sent to "Beulak" for prayers that 
I might be made straight and that my chest might be 
filled out. 

At the hour of prayer, while joining with the "Beulah" 
friends, I seemed to hear a voice say, "Go and look in 
the glass." I unfastened my clothes, and saw that the 
cavity was filled out, the awful soreness was gone, and 
I was straight. Glory to the Lord! 

The cough did not leave; then I wrote to Mrs. Dudley 
again, and asked prayers that the cough should be taken 
away. While they prayed it left me. 

I felt the Lord wanted me to work for Him and tell 
what He had clone for me; as soon as I obeyed, I found 
myself perfectly well and happy in the Lord. 

About a year afterward I met with much opposition 
and shrank from following Jesus. Little by little I 
found the old diseases coming back upon me, until I 
was worse than I was the first time. I would advise 
every one to do what the Lord wants him to do, that he 
may not have to learn the lesson the second time as I 
had to do. 

I became discouraged and went to a specialist, Dr. 
D. A. McDonald, instead of seeking Divine help again. 
He told me in the presence of his wife that I had bron- 
chial consumption in the second stages, and it was a 
question of a very short time with me unless I had 
speedy help. My whole constitution was broken down. 
My heart was in a very bad condition. I had such 
extreme weakness all over me I could not stay up long 
at a time. Could scarcely use my right arm, or lift it 
above my head. My stomach was very weak; day and 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 173 

night there was constant tendency to vomit. In each 
sickness my eyelids were granulated and sight affected. 
In short, my sufferings were beyond human description. 
I had taken the doctor's medicine just one week when 
Mrs. Dudley came to Dowagiac and sent for me to come 
and see her, not knowing I was sick again. As soon as 
I got into the buggy to go to her, I felt my lungs were 
instantly healed. When she anointed and prayed with 
me my body was made whole again. Praise the Lord! 
He has seen fit to prove me this time, and has given me 
some precious fiery trials, for which I praise Him. I 
have been very, very happy in the midst of all, and more 
than conqueror. These trials have made me what I 
am. I pray that this my experience may be the means 
in God's hands of leading other dear ones to fully trust 
Jesus. 



Mrs. George Walters, Grand Kapids, Mich. — I suf- 
fered for years with diseases of heart, liver, kidneys, 
and spine, from uterine weakness, also inflammatory 
piles of the w^orst form. I would lie from one to three 
days in a week with sick headache, and it was impossi- 
ble for anyone to come into the room without giving me 
intense pain. No one but Jesus knew what I suffered. 
I supposed that I was bearing pain to please the Lord. 

My eldest son was also a sufferer from infancy. The 
doctor said it would be impossible for him ever to 
do a hard day's work. That he might possibly live to 
fourteen years of age, but would never reach twenty. 

He was troubled with inherited diseases of liver, kid- 
neys and bladder, often being kept under ether for days 
at a time, because of the great pain. The least weari- 



174 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

ness would throw him into one of those distressing 
spells, and then he would lie for weeks under the doc- 
tor's care, being bloated so that he was a sight to 
behold. 

Oh, how I praise God for the time when I found Jesus 
a Healer! 

I first met Mrs. Dudley at an afternoon prayer meet- 
ing. I remember well the first lesson I heard her give, 
its subject "Faith." Oh, how I praise God for that 
lesson; it fed my very soul, for I was then sure that 
was the only way to become well! 

I had been going to these prayer meetings for about 
four months when we were all taken sick with la grippe, 
all excepting my husband who had typhoid pneumonia 
instead. 

He was a very sick man, his temperature at 103 de- 
grees. The doctor said the fever could not be broken, 
the disease must run its course. I was nearly dis- 
tracted, as there was no one to wait upon us. It was 
truly a house of pain and woe. 

In the evening Sisters Dudley, Xevins and Coryell 
came to see us. It seemed as though they brought the 
very presence of God with them, for as they laid their 
hands upon me in the name of Jesus, in an instant I was 
healed, and my three children also in the same manner. 
My youngest son, who was about four years old, jumped 
up, and clapping his hands, exclaimed, "Jesus makes 
me well." My eldest son has been in perfect health 
since. My husband's fever left him, and the entire 
household was made free in Jesus. It is about four 
years since we were healed, and my son is strong and 
well. I can truly praise the Lord, and His praises are 
continuallv in mv mouth. 



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Mrs. E. L. McLaine, Edgerton, Mich. — In July, 1890, 
I was thrown from a carriage into a ditch where brush 
and logs had been cast. My left shoulder was dislo- 
cated and my head seriously hurt. 

Some time before my injury a neighbor had a similar 
injury. He procured the best medical aid at hand, 
which was not successful. He afterward went to Grand 
Rapids and had the bones reset. However, he was left 
a cripple in his shoulder and arm. This made me afraid 
to trust myself in the hands of any doctor. 

The pain continued in my arm and shoulder until No- 
vember 5, 1891. During this time I was a perfect wreck. 
My husband went to the "Beulah" Home, in Grand 
Rapids, and asked prayers that the pain might be 
removed, so I could ride twenty miles to "Beulah." The 
prayer was answered, and I had no more hard pain. 
Miss Agnes Schultz, of the Fourth Michigan Crusade 
Band, came from "Beulah" in October and told of how 
the Lord had healed her of throat and lung trouble, 
and the wonderful work of the Lord there. This gave 
me hope, but I could not move across the room without 
increasing the pain. 

I was to go the following day, but the storm pre- 
vented. As soon as the weather would permit I went, 
and found Mrs. Dudley absent from home. I heard 
when she would return, but the word did not reach me 
until it was too late to meet her at that time. 

Then Mrs. Dudley wrote to me w T hen to come. I 
went to that dear "Beulah Home" January 25, 1892. 
My shoulder had dropped two or more inches, was set 
and helpless. My shoulder blade was not right. The 
flesh seemed loose from the bone and dropped in a 



176 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

roll over the elbow. My hand seemed lifeless and per- 
ishing. 

During day and evening Bible readings were given. 
At the close Mr. and Mrs. Dudley anointed me. Imme- 
diately the power of the Lord came upon me, and my 
shoulder, which it was impossible for me to move, be- 
gan to work up and down. This continued about half 
an hour. The joint and bones came into place and the 
life came into my hand and the flesh became natural 
upon my arm, and I could lift my hand to my head for 
the first time in seventeen months. My whole being 
was filled with the Holy Spirit and praise to God. All 
glory to Jesus! I have had the perfect use of my arm 
and shoulder since. 

At the same hour of my healing, Mrs. Mary Hender- 
son, of Cedar Springs, who was also waiting upon God, 
was instantly healed of insanity, and is now caring for 
her family and doing her housework, rejoicing in the 
Lord her Healer. 

The next morning I was attacked with a severe sick 
headache, to which I have been subject since I was 
fifteen years of age (I am now forty-nine). I think few 
ever suffered as I did in this way. I would faint as 
fast as I could be brought to. This would continue for 
hours. The Lord healed me entirely of this, also. I 
have had no symptoms of it since. I was at the same 
time healed of a numbness that quite frequently came 
over me, so I had to arise at night and manipulate my- 
self to bring back the sense of feeling. I had a bad 
cough left from la grippe, of which I am entirely 
healed. "The same hour He healed them." 

I give this brief testimony for the glory of God, pray- 
ing that some poor sufferer who reads it may see their 



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privilege in the atoning blood of Christ for spirit, soul 
and body. 



Captain Haight, of the Christian Crusaders. — Ships- 
hewana, Ind., May 5, 1895 — It is now nearly four years 
since I paid my first visit to "Beulah," 85 Baxter street, 
Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. Dudley's home. I had read 
her book, and upon my visit received further instruc- 
tions concerning the truths of the gospel in connection 
with the doctrine of Divine Healing. 

I at that time accepted Jesus as my Healer, my phys- 
ical life by faith on the authority of His Word, just as 
simply as I at first received Him as my Savior, and a 
few months later as my Sanctifier. I have been very 
actively engaged in evangelistic work almost continu- 
ously ever since, both summer and winter. I have been 
tempted and tried, but my Physician has never failed 
me. In all that time I have not lost a single evening 
service because of sickness. The blessedness that has 
been mine in a spiritual sense has scarcely been less 
than that in connection with my physical life. I have 
found a sweetness and rest in Jesus more precious than 
I had known before. It has not been like healing in the 
natural way, but to draw upon Jesus day by day for all 
my need. Others have been taught the way, and have 
joyfully testified to their victory through the name of 
an all-sufficient Savior. One lady, Mrs. H. C. Campbell, 
of Centreville, Mich., was an invalid when we went 
there to hold the series of meetings recently closed. 
She had inherited Bright's disease, had been obliged 
to wear a truss for a long time, and also wore glasses. 
The truss and glasses she removed, accepted Jesus as 



178 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

her physical life, was anointed, and the Lord wonder- 
fully healed her. She went to work where she had to 
sit in a draught, a thing she had not been able to do 
before without taking cold. What cold she had left her, 
and she has been very joyful in the Lord. Five others 
there accepted Jesus as their physician and were 
anointed. 

The Lord has been using us more for the spread of 
this part of the Gospel in the last few months. Have 
anointed thirteen or more since the beginning of last 
winter, who through our teaching largely have accepted 
Jesus as a full Savior. 

If God's suffering "little ones" will only receive His 
truth as a little child does, they may be saved from 
their suffering, with the joy of the Lord instead. 

Yours in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of 
Christ. 



Miss Stella E. Wyatt, now Mrs. Smythe, of Ypsilanti, 
Mich. — For five years I had spinal trouble, two years of 
that time confined to my bed. Before the last year I 
had been able to sit and to walk about the house by the 
use of a steel brace, but this support became insuffi- 
cient, and in February, 1887, I was taken down again 
with but little hope of recovery, as every means had 
been tried which we could reasonably hope to be bene- 
ficial. I was very weak, and any attempt to sit or 
stand produced great distress in my head and in my 
spine, which was curved in two places. I tried not to 
be impatient, for I thought it was God's will for me to 
suffer, but, oh, I wanted to be well. I sometimes won- 
dered if it was His will for us to be deprived of health, 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 179 

for I remembered that Jesus healed all that had need 
of healing, and never turned any away. The more I 
thought of it the more reasonable it seemed to believe 
that He has the same tenderness for us, who live only 
a few hundred years later, for I noticed it does not say 
that He healed them because of any peculiarity in the 
people or the times, or even to glorify Himself, but be- 
cause He had compassion on them. And His promise, 
"Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the 
world," seemed very significant in this connection. Yet 
I clung to my doubts -and would not believe it meant 
me. 

I wrote to Miss Judd, and she encouraged me to ask 
Jesus for my health and to come as simply as those 
wiiose cases are recorded in the New Testament; and 
said they would remember me at their meeting Sep- 
tember 29th. This was about two weeks before, and I 
looked forward with most intense interest to that day. 
I thought and prayed about it a great deal, but saw so 
much I could not understand that I was much troubled. 
On the afternoon of September 28th I was left alone at 
my request. I felt that I must know what the dear 
Lord would have me do. I asked Him to show me, and 
told him how the perplexities seemed to thicken as I 
studied the matter, and I was tired of trying to make 
it clear to myself, and now r I would leave it all to Him. 
I asked Him to guide me as I should open my Bible, 
and the first words my eyes fell upon I would take as 
His answer. These were the words, "Fear not." I 
closed my eyes, it seemed so wonderful — then read the 
rest of the verse, "It is you Father's good pleasure to 
give you the kingdom." I shut my Bible and thanked 
Him. My prayer was answered. I did not doubt any 



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longer, it all seemed so plain. Just at that moment a 
young lady came in. She asked how I was feeling. I 
was just replying, "About as usual/' when it came to me 
that it would not be right to say that, when I had just 
told Jesus I believed He had answered my prayer. I 
stopped and changed it to "I am well." She looked 
surprised, and said she was glad. I asked her to pray, 
that I might have faith to get up. She knelt soon and 
began praying for me, and after a few moments I felt 
that the dear Lord would help me, because I knew He 
had led me to believe I was well. So I said, "I will get 
up now." She took my hand and I walked to the ward- 
robe, dressed myself and went out into the sitting- 
room, where we knelt together and thanked God for 
His wonderful works. Then I asked her to read. I did 
not want to speak, but just to keep close to Jesus, and 
she read His precious promises, and I knew they were 
all for me. We sat there an hour, and then my mother, 
who had been out riding, came in, and what do you 
think she did? Why, she began to cry, "Dear, -dear, not 
her, not Stella !" She thought I was trying in my own 
strength, which would have been rash indeed. My 
disease was healed according to His promise, and al- 
though for some time I was not very strong, I have been 
enabled to do more than I ever could before. 

Last winter I went to school, where I had to climb 
three flights of stairs two or three times a day, and walk 
from twenty to thirty blocks. I am so glad to owe 
everything to the dear Lord. I think it brings us so 
near Him to depend upon Him this way, and trust Him 
alone for health. 

The very day and hour that I was healed they were 
praying for me at "Beulah," but unknown to me, as the 



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request had been sent by a friend without my knowl- 
edge. 



Mrs. Annie Palmer, Manton, Mich., April 9, 1894. — 
Born of sickly parents; from both I inherited disease, 
and was never well. Have had many different diseases, 
and been under the treatment of twenty-three different 
physicians. 

For twenty years I suffered greatly from a badly dis- 
ordered condition of the stomach. God only knows how 
intense was my suffering, and how much I longed to die. 
For a year before my healing a very offensive diarrhea 
afflicted me. My father died of consumption of the 
bowels, and the doctor said I was now in a fair way to 
go- as he had. I took all that doctors prescribed, and 
patent medicines of various kinds, but nothing did me 
any good. I was a burden to myself and to all my 
friends. Because of neuralgia in my head, I was par- 
tially deranged for a while. Altogether miserable! 

One day a friend called, and when I spoke of sending 
by her for some more medicine, she gave me a pamphlet 
telling of "Beulah Home," and expressed a wish that I 
could go there and receive help. As for me to go was 
out of the question, I told her that I would write, that 
I had always thought Jesus would heal just as He used 
to do, if we only had the faith. 

"After I wrote to "Beulah" requesting prayers, how 
Satan did try to discourage me; telling me I was not at 
all worthy, and need not hope for healing. I knew per- 
fectly well that I should die if the dear Savior did not 
help me. 

When the answer to my letter came, telling me at 



182 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

what hour they would join with me in prayer, I told no 
one, but went away alone, and tried to pray, and to 
examine the passages of Scripture Mrs. Dudley had di- 
rected me to read. Satan was by, as usual, endeavoring 
to discourage me, but I kept on praying, when, at the 
hour they were to join me, I felt something like electri- 
city go all through my being. It seemed that Jesus 
was present, and in Him I was supremely happy. I just 
sang and praised God. I was healed, body, soul and 
spirit. Praise the name of our God forever! 

Six years ago I was healed. Can eat anything now 
without discomfort. Many have been my answers to 
prayer since then. If sickness comes, I take it to Jesus 
in this blessed way, and He has always heard and 
helped. 

A few years ago a lump, half as large as an egg, made 
its appearance in my breast. My daughter was alarmed 
and wished me to consult a doctor. Upon examination 
he pronounced it cancer, and advised that it be cut 
out at once; but I preferred to entrust the whole mat- 
ter to the dear Lord, who had done so much for me. I 
went down to Grand Eapids to "Beulah Home," was 
anointed, and prayer offered for me by the company 
present. There was no manifestation of healing, but a 
peaceful, restful feeling beyond description filled me. 
"Beulah" is a blessed place. You can feel at once the 
Divine presence there. 

When I returned home the weather was very warm. 
Company came to stay a day or two. There was no 
one to help me, and I had to keep up. All the time my 
breast hurt me terribly, the intense burning seemed un- 
bearable. How Satan did try me! He told me I should 
have listened to my friends and staid at home, that I 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 183 

wasn't healed, etc. But I wrote Sister Dudley all about 
it, and again they prayed for me; then I felt that I was 
healed. I think the dear Lord wished to show me that 
He was the one to trust; that He could heal me at my 
own home as well as at "Beulah." 

I love Sister Dudley very dearly, and my blessed 
Savior would show me that my trust was in her more 
than in Himself. Sister Dudley told me not to touch 
my breast, nor give attention to its condition. It pained 
me at times, and Satan tried to discourage me, but my 
trust was in the Lord. This is written to encourage 
some poor afflicted one to trust in Jesus. Since enter- 
ing this life of faith I have learned sweet lessons and 
have but one desire, to know and do God's will. 

Praise His dear name forever! 

From a letter written by Mrs. Palmer, June 26, 1895, 
we give this extract. (Ed.) 

"You ask about that bunch. It is gone entirely, and 
there is no soreness whatever. Praise the Lord! I 
can, and do trust Jesus for body and soul, now and for- 
ever. Oh, Pm so glad I ever learned to trust Him. I 
feel like shouting, Glory, hallelujah! 



Mrs. Rosa Nevins, Six Lakes, Mich., June 3, 1895. — 
I was all my life a great sufferer from salt rheum on 
my hands. My finger nails came off very often. I 
first thought of taking the Lord for my Healer by read- 
ing the little book "Beulah." 

Then Mr. and Mrs. Dudley came to Moline, where we 
then lived, to hold meetings. I w^as anointed, did not 



184 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

get better, but grew worse for two weeks. Some power 
seemed to hold niy hands and arms, and kept telling 
me my hands would never be well unless I put some- 
thing on them. But for two weeks I kept saying, Xo. 
The last day I was sitting, holding my hands, they 
were paining me very much, when Satan said: "You 
had better put something on your hands or they will 
never get well." I answered: "I will not; I am trust- 
ing in Jesus, and I am going to trust Him." 

Then that power left my arms, and I was filled with 
joy; the victory was the Lord's. My hands got well 
very fast. That was six years ago, and they are well. 
Praise the Lord! 

After I was healed, one of my daughter's hands be- 
came sore with salt rheum. I had to prepare her food 
upon her plate and she could hardly feed herself. I 
told her to show her hands to her father. He said 
she ought to have something done for them. I re- 
plied: "The same that cured mine is good for hers." 
He said the medicine that I had taken cured mine. 
But I sent to "Beulah" for prayers and her hands were 
healed without any medicine. 

"What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus my Lord." 



Mrs. Emma Sampson, Greenville, Montcalm Co., 
Mich., P. O. Box 88. — With pleasure I will try to write 
of my healing, which is only one of the instances of 
God's mercy to His children who trust Him fully and 
take Him at His word. 

I was not of a strong constitution, and after becom- 
ing a mother was somewhat of an invalid. Troubled 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 185 

with my back, and with general weakness. Had also 
terrible headaches, which would last two or three days, 
when I would be obliged to lie in a dark room and be 
very quiet, always feeling, after an attack, that I had 
passed through a hard sickness. 

For five and one-half weeks after the birth of my 
third child I did not stand upon my feet. On the last 
day of that time our house burned, and I received a 
shock from which I was soon threatened with spinal 
fever; but God was there, and when I was most dis- 
couraged, said to me: "Only trust, and thou shalt be 
made whole." But, sad to say, I did not know how, 
and although our God had declared many hundred 
years ago, "I am the Lord that healeth thee," the words 
were meaningless to me. Different doctors were tried 
until four had exhausted their skill— and patience, 
too, I think. One confidently affirmed that but for the 
remedies used my heart must have failed long ago. 
Many times I felt that there were but a few hours left 
me, and would give away the things I prized. There 
was congestion of the spine and brain, and extreme 
nervous prostration. I can find no words to express 
what I suffered. Obliged to be in total darkness the 
greater part of the time. Unable to sit up. Lying at 
times for four weeks in succession without having my 
pillows or bed stirred or hardly touched. Could not 
turn my bod} 7 , head, or eyes, or be moved by anyone 
without the most dreadful sensations, as though I were 
whirling about, flying over the head of the bed, or fall- 
ing upon the floor. 

Such awful feelings had full possession of me that I 
died a thousand deaths. I could not straighten my 
lower limbs or use but one arm. My heart and stomach 



186 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

were very bad. I was always cold, yet covered with 
sweat; if a draft of air reached me I had neuralgia. 

When I could be moved, two persons, one at my 
head, the other at my feet, carried me in the morning 
to another bed and back at night. In this condition I 
lay for four years. Trying everything I could to get 
well. Had treatment by electricity for nine months; 
at the end of that time could just lift my head off the 
pillow, only to let it drop suddenly down. But the lit- 
tle book, "Beulah," was sent to me. There were times 
when I could hear someone read a very little; so my 
mother, who was always with me, read this to me, as I 
could bear it. 

Very forcibly were the words of truth applied to my 
mind. I remembered God's word to me in the first of 
my sickness: "Only trust, and thou shalt be made 
whole." 

Immediately I left off all medicines, including the 
laudanum, of which I took a great deal, and sent for 
Mrs. Dudley to come at once, but received word that 
she could not come then. At this time a dear ac- 
quaintance, Mrs. Aggie Nevins, of Moline, who had just 
been healed, came and prayed with me. I felt the heal- 
ing power in my back and neck. Could at once turn 
myself without being dizzy; lie on my left side for the 
first time in all these years; and even rise up in bed 
without assistance; but did not understand that I 
must claim perfect deliverance. 

Later Mrs. Dudley came and anointed me. Upon 
the following day I walked out to dinner. Had to bor- 
row clothes to wear. Oh, the great joy of having on a 
dress, and shoes — to walk again, and to sit in a chair! 
Only those can tell who, from entire helplessness, have 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 187 

been raised to strength and life. The same week I 
went to the neighbors and to prayer meeting. Steadily 
growing stronger. Not long after I was doing my own 
work, caring for my family, and we live upon a farm. 

Ever since I have found Jesus a present help in time 
of need. In less than two years after my healing God 
gave me a nice healthy boy, and he is always strong 
and well. He is especially dedicated to God, because 
of His great mercy to me. 

My children trust God instead of taking medicine, 
and have many times been wonderfully healed. Their 
simple faith as they unite with me in prayer is often 
stronger than my own. 

One day, wiien my son Leon was about seven years 
of age, just before the time he usually brought in the 
wood for night, he was taken with pain in his stomach 
— so severe that he lay upon the floor on his face, crying 
in distress, unable to straighten up or stand. We be- 
gan to talk of asking God to help him bring in the 
large chunks of wood. He said he had asked Him, but 
the pain hadn't stopped. 

I told him of the ten lepers whom Christ healed as 
they went, and suggested that maybe God wanted him 
to begin bringing in his wood. He arose with a de- 
termined effort and went out. As he stooped to lift 
the first stick all pain left him, and he returned to the 
house, giving God the glory. Our youngest child, four 
years old now x , wishes God to pull out the slivers that 
get into his flesh. And he will go off by himself and 
talk to the Lord about giving him things, or doing 
something for him, in a way so simple and trusting that 
is both touching and amusing. Time fails me to tell 



188 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

of all God's mercies. Would that everyone might see 
and believe His blessed truth. 

Be strong in the Lord! I find that, as I trust Him 
moment by moment, strength comes just when needed. 

I wish it were possible to describe Mrs. Sampson's 
appearance when she first walked from her bed to a 
chair, and back again. She has spoken of the whirl- 
ing sensation from which she suffered so much. When 
she first stood upon her feet and attempted to walk, 
her spine actually had a twisting movement, swaying 
her whole body. I did not wonder that her brain 
whirled. — [Ed.] 



Mrs. Reynolds, Six Lakes, Mich. — When living near 
Greenville, I was sick for about three months. Doc- 
tored all the time. Was not able to hear much talk- 
ing, or to talk myself. One Friday morning Mrs. Nev- 
ins came to see me and told what the Lord had done 
for her; also, that they had sent for Mrs. Dudley to 
see Mrs. Sampson. I said: "I wish she would come 
to see me." Mrs. Nevins promised to bring her when 
she came. They came the next afternoon, and told me 
how the Lord had raised Mrs. Sampson that morning. 
They prayed with and anointed me, laying their hands 
upon me in the name of the Lord. I arose, dressed my- 
self, walked across the room and sat down in the door- 
way, and was healed. 

When my eldest son came home and I told him what 
the Lord had done for me, he said it did him more good 
than reading the Bible a year. The next day I told my 
son to get the carriage. I wanted to go for a ride. 
We went a mile and a half to call upon Mrs. Stone, who 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 189 

had been to see me the day before I was healed, and 
who thought I could not live long. When she saw r my 
son she was frightened and feared I w^as worse. He 
asked her to come out to the buggy; when she saw me 
there she was astonished. I went in and told them all 
about it. The next day I went to work and did all my 
housework. That was six years ago. One year ago, 
while my youngest son was sick with lung fever and 
under the doctor's care, I was taken very sick. One of 
my friends brought a lady physician. I took her medi- 
cine until the Lord told Mrs. Nevins to come and pray 
with me; then I saw my sin and took no more medi- 
cine, but seemed worse. My son said: "Mother is go- 
ing to die, and Mrs. Nevins will be to blame." But I 
got well before he did. Praise the Lord! 



Mrs. Nellie Oonant, Montrose, Mich., October, 1889. — 
I learned of Mrs. Dudley and her work for Jesus, 
through her little book, "Beulak." I had been in poor 
health for several years, when I was taken with typhoid 
fever and spinal disease, and in four months was so 
reduced I could not help myself in the least, nor speak 
a loud word. I left myself in Jesus' hands, seeing He 
had shed His blood for my body as for my soul and was 
willing to heal me. One time, when it was thought I was 
going, my spirit was caught up and I saw Heaven; 
there were angelic beings, crowned and robed. Filled 
with glory, I fell at Jesus' feet. He said to me: "You 
must return to earth and stay awhile." I was then 
led to send to Mrs. Dudley a request for prayer for my 
recovery. And at the very hour that united prayer 



190 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

was offered for rue, my room was filled with light and 
glory; Jesus came and spoke peace to my soul, and 
said, "Arise, thou art whole." He strengthened and 
lifted me up, and I walked for one-half hour, praising 
God. 

I am fully consecrated to work and live for Jesus 
anywhere. God's word is the law^ of my life, and a new 
beauty, power and holiness seems to shine out on every 
page. I have complete satisfaction and rest in Jesus. 

Since my healing there has been no response within 
my nature to temptations from without. Oh! how I 
praise God for His full and free salvation as it is mani- 
fested to me. 

Witnesses: Eev. William Coombs, Mrs. 0. R. Coombs, 
G. W. Ruggles, E. Euggles. 



Mrs. G. Hoebeke, Grand Rapids, Mich., May 22, 1895. 
— It is with gratitude to my Heavenly Father, and for 
His glory, that I give my testimony of what He has 
done for us. 

In the fall of 1893 I first heard of the work Mrs. Dud- 
ley was doing. Being a sufferer from heart disease 
and stomach trouble for many years, I thought I would 
like to see her, and ask if it could be the Lord's wall 
that I should be sick all the time. I thought, like so 
many others do, that it was, and, if so, was willing to 
bear my cross patiently. O, how glad I was when Mrs. 
Dudley showed me from God's Holy Word that He is 
willing to heal all that have faith to be healed, and 
that it is His will that His children should be well. 
Saturday afternoon, November 11, 1893, I heard these 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 191 

glad tidings. Mrs. Dudley asked me if I was ready to 
be anointed, and I said, "Yes, I believe the Lord will 
heal me." I was anointed, the prayer of faith offered, 
and Jesus healed me instantly. The terrible beating 
of my heart stopped, all tired and sick feeling left me, 
and I felt a new strength flow through my whole 
being. I shall never forget that moment. "Jesus the 
same, yesterday and to-day and forever." Praise His 
Holy name! O, that many of God's children might see 
their privilege in Christ, and see that He bore our sick- 
nesses, as well as our sins, in His own body on the tree. 

It is a year and a half since I was healed, and we 
have not had a doctor or used any medicine in our fam- 
ily since. 

The Lord delivers us from all our diseases. I cannot 
praise Him enough for giving us all faith to trust Him. 
When the children have any pain or trouble they say, 
"Mamma, will you ask Jesus to make us better?" 
Often they are healed in answer to their own prayers. 
Divine Healing brings us so near to God, and gives us 
such spiritual blessing. 

My daughter had catarrh for fifteen years; we tried 
many remedies and doctored for it, but nothing did 
any good. She was healed in December, 1893. My 
eldest son had a bad cough for years, and was always 
worse in winter. He also took the Lord for his Healer, 
and was healed. 

Mr. Hoebeke had what the doctor called blood poi- 
son; red spots breaking out on neck and hands every 
spring; it being worse each year than the year before. 
We took it to the Lord and it did not appear last spring. 
Glory to God! 

Last summer one of the bovs had a sore mouth. His 



192 some of the fruits of 

tongue, gums and lips were so sore that he could not 
talk or eat for two days. We prayed with him, but it 
got no better. We took him to the meeting and he was 
anointed. When we arose from our knees he could 
talk, and the next day was well. 

In the fall he was taken sick and showed the same 
symptoms as those of my sister's little daughter, who 
died with brain fever. He had terrible headache, high 
fever, and w T as very delirious. We did not have a doc- 
tor, so do not know w^hat it was, but think it was brain 
fever. O, how sweet it is to trust in Jesus; no anxious 
care, but a full trust that the prayer of faith shall save 
the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. He was 
anointed on Friday afternoon. The Lord tried our 
faith and permitted him to get worse until Saturday 
morning; from that time he recovered rapidly, so that 
he was up and dressed Sunday. On Saturday a friend 
said: "You cannot keep that boy." When he came 
again on Monday he was still better. 

The Lord has done wonderful things for our youngest 
child, now T four years old. He was always ailing and 
very weak, but since we took him to the Lord he is 
strong and healthy. A year ago last winter he had the 
measles; he was anointed and a few moments later 
said: "I am all better; put my clothes on." We did; 
and then he began to play. Another time he had a 
fever for a few days. I went to the Alliance meeting 
to ask prayer for him. There was to be another meet- 
ing in the evening and someone asked me if I were 
going. I said: "Yes, if baby is better; if not, then I 
do not like to leave him again." They said : "Did not 
we ask the Lord to heal him; cannot you believe that 
He did?" 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 193 

I answered: "Yes, Lord, I believe." It was then 
about half-past four o'clock. When I reached home 
I found him better, and asked my daughter how he had 
been. She said that during the afternoon he had been 
worse than in the morning; he moaned all the time, 
and she had to stay with him, holding his hand, until 
half-past four, when he began to be better at once. I 
went to that meeting in the evening full of praises to 
my Lord. 

Last spring he put a small piece of coal in his ear; 
we tried to get it out, but it went in further. We 
trusted the Lord to make it come out and went right 
to sleep, not worrying at all. If we had not trusted 
Jesus I would not have slept much. The next morn- 
ing we could not see it, and thought it was out all right; 
but a few days later there was a swelling near his ear. 
I asked prayer for him. In the meeting Mrs. Dudley 
prayed that if it pleased the Lord I might find the piece 
of coal when it came out, so I could show what our 
Lord will do for those who trust Him. When I came 
home the pain and swelling were gone, and I thought 
again that it was out and lost. Six months later it 
came out, without pain or anyone doing anything to it. 
I have it now. 

Last winter he took his brother's sled (without my 
knowledge) and went sliding on a steep hill, near our 
home. He had his little hands on the front of the sled, 
but, being too small to steer it, ran against a tree. To 
all appearance his right hand was broken; it was 
badly swollen and he could not lift it up. I took him 
to Mrs. Dudley, who anointed him, and immediately the 
swelling went down, and he began to move his fingers, 
and the next day used his hand again. 



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For three years I was troubled with a swelling in the 
roof of my mouth. It came slowly; at times would 
pain me badly, sharp pains to my eyes. I went to a 
doctor and said: "Please tell me just what this is; it 
won't frighten me, for I shall trust the Lord to take it 
away.-' He said that it would without doubt be a can- 
cer, unless opened at once. I was anointed for it, and 
in three days it had disappeared. Oh, how I love my 
Jesus! I am so glad I ever learned this beautiful faith. 



Extracts from the letters of Mrs. Cora Elmore, Boon, 
Wexford Co., Mich., December 11, 1894. — I have been 
confined to my bed, battling with neuralgia, until my 
strength is gone; my spine and limbs nearly paralyzed. 
I ask you, in the name of Jesus, pray at once that this 
pain may leave me. 

From my birth I have had heart trouble. When 
about thirteen years of age was so badly injured by a 
fall that for years I have been a cripple from curvature 
of the spine. I now apply to the Great Physician, and 
from this time put myself wholly in His care." 

Later. — I would tell you that your prayers for me 
were being answered; even before I received your letter 
I felt a newness creeping through my benumbed limbs; 
the great weight was taken from my breast; something 
seemed to say: "Arise and walk." Startled, I listened. 
Again the voice said: "You have been asked in my 
name to arise and walk; my strength is sufficient for 
you." Immediately I arose and walked about the room 
without pain or fatigue. In a few days discovered the 
bones in my back to be as straight as they had ever 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 195 

been. The old curves had disappeared, and I was in- 
deed made whole! O, what rejoicing and thanksgiv- 
ing filled our hearts and mouths when we saw mani- 
fested the goodness of God. 

On receipt of the first letter Mr. Dudley and myself 
knelt in our room. Mr. Dudley voiced the prayer. I 
felt the answer was given, and could only praise the 
Lord that He had heard. We were not surprised when 
the letter came telling of Mrs. Elmore's healing. — [Ed.] 



Mrs. Agnes Peck, Staff Captain of Christian Crusa- 
ders, Dutton, Mich., September 18, 1895. — My girlhood 
days were spent largely in pleasure, and especially in 
the ball-room; in consequence, I soon found a peculiar 
swelling upon one of my ankles, which was caused by 
exposure and excessive dancing. 

At the age of seventeen I was converted, and in 1889 
entered the Crusade work; but all the time my foot 
grew worse, until I would often fall upon the street. 
And as doctors told me they could do me no good, and 
that I would only grow worse and worse as long as I 
lived, I took no medicine nor treatment for some time 
before I heard of "Beulah." 

At first I thought that was a Christian Science insti- 
tution; but when Mrs. Captain Keed went and brought 
back good news, I concluded to go and see if it would 
do me any good. I went, and, praise God! although 
my lungs, too, were so bad that few of my friends ex- 
pected recovery, yet the Great Physician undertook 
my case, and I was completely restored, so that my 
lungs have become strong and my ankle has been 



196 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

stronger than it was before my affliction. For five 
years I have been enabled to walk and work in meet- 
ings as though I had never been a cripple. What a 
wonderful Saviour, "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; 
who healeth all thy diseases/' 

"Jesus Christ, the same, yesterday, to-day and for- 
ever." 

There are many witnesses to the above statements. 
Should any doubt, let them inquire of Staff Captain 
Mrs. Eeed, Shelby, Mich. 



Mrs. Susie George, 721 Hall Street, Grand Rapids, 
Mich. — In 1883 I was taken with nervous prostration. 
Had severe pain in my head; was unable to read, work, 
care for myself, or even talk with my friends. 

In 1885 I went to Petoskey, Mich. One night, while 
kneeling in prayer, the devil said to me: "You need 
not ask for sleep, you've had all you'll ever have in 
this world." I said: "Then I shall die." He said: 
"You will, soon." I replied: "I will pray for sleep, 
anyway." I did pray, and retired. The devil stood at 
the head of my bed; I could see him in a cloud. He 
talked to me thus: "The Lord says, 'He that giveth 
His beloved sleep.' You have not slept for a long time, 
and will sleep no more; so you can't be one of His be- 
loved." I answered: "I thought I was one of His be- 
loved." He said: "Then the Bible is not true, for 
He does not give you sleep." I cried: "I am undone; 
what will become of me?" It was an awful moment. 
It seemed I should die. I exclaimed: "I know the 
Bible is true, and I know I am His beloved." 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 197 

Then I saw Jesus standing at the foot of the bed, 
Satan having moved to one corner of the room. As 
Jesus came where Satan had stood he vanished, and I 
fell into a sweet sleep, which lasted for hours. But I 
was not healed; I was taking remedies. 

I soon met dear Sister Chipman, who gave me her 
experience in Divine Healing. The more I thought 
about it the more I wanted to take Jesus as my Healer. 
I said: "Lord, I will give up all remedies and trust 
Thee." At night I suffered intensely with my heart, 
but used nothing for relief. All at once the palpitation 
ceased and I fell asleep. 

A few days later the Lord gave me victory over a ter- 
rible pain in my head, with the assurance that I was 
healed and should sleep, and I slept sweetly. On my 
return to Grand Kapids I was tried by dreams and rest- 
lessness. I attended Mrs. Dudley's meetings, where 
she had prayer for me, and for eight years I have had 
none of this trouble. 

A dreadful cough and night-sweats came upon me 
last summer. I grew very weak; none who saw me 
thought I could ever be any better. I wrote to "Beu- 
lah" for prayers, and the next day all was gone. Since 
that time the Lord has healed me of serious stomach 
trouble, and now I can eat whatever I like. My soul is 
continually blessed. O, praise the dear Lord for what 
He has done for me. He has never failed me when I 
have fully trusted Him. 



Mrs. C. Osterle, Grand Bapids, Mich., July 25, 1895 — 
Two years ago I was very much bloated, and suffered 



198 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

much from the dropsical condition of my whole body. 
I attended the Faith prayer meetings held by Sister 
Dudley on the west side. 

After hearing the Bible lessons I was anointed and 
healed of dropsy. At another prayer meeting I was 
filled with the Holy Ghost. Later I was healed of what 
the doctor said -was a tumor in my side. While pray- 
ing by myself and getting ready to die, the Lord told 
me to go and water my garden. I did so, and the tumor 
all went away. I do not know where it went. 

Last winter I was taken very sick with la grippe, fol- 
lowed by erysipelas in my head and face. I was un- 
conscious for some time. Again the Lord healed me. 
After my flesh began to heal, the skin peeled off, and 
my hair came out; nice, new hair came in. This sum- 
mer, before I left for my southern home, in Clairmont, 
Va., I had a dreadful attack of what a doctor called 
acute congestion of the kidneys and bladder. For a 
few hours the suffering was awful. I sent for Sister 
Dudley, was anointed and instantly healed. 

Praise the Lord! He is so good to me; He has done 
so much for me. 



Mrs. Martha Trankler, Grand Kapids, Mich. — Nearly 
eight years ago I was suddenly attacked with terrible 
suffering. Our family physician was unable to afford 
me any permanent help. My health became so poor I 
saw scarcely a well day, and was constantly under the 
doctor's care, or taking highly recommended patent 
medicines. 

In the fourth year a council of doctors (the best in 
Grand Eapids) was called at two different times. Some 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 199 

of them pronounced the trouble gall-stones, while oth- 
ers believed it to be neuralgia. I would not go over 
four weeks, at the longest, often only a day or two, 
without these terrible spells, lasting twenty-four hours 
at a time. Nothing but opiates would relieve me, and 
afterward my lips and nails would turn nearly black, 
and my skin yellow. 

. Sister Dudley was holding faith meetings in our 
part of the city. Some of my neighbors, who believed 
in Divine Healing, called and invited me to attend. I 
was a professing Christian, had accepted Jesus as the 
Saviour of my soul. I attended one meeting and did 
not enjoy it very well, for I thought I could not give up 
my medicine. I began to search the Scriptures; tried 
to find a place where Jesus told me to use remedies; 
but could find nothing to satisfy myself. Almost 
every time I opened my Bible I would find where Jesus 
had healed someone. 

"He healed all that were sick." That meant, He 
would heal me. It also said: "Himself took our in- 
firmities and bare our sicknesses." Yes, my sicknesses, 
as well as my sins. The New Testament is full of prom- 
ises to heal, and the only remedy He showed me was 
to be anointed with oil in the name of the Lord. So 
blessed and simple! 

The night before I took the Lord as my Healer passed 
in communing with Him. The still, small voice kept 
asking: "Why don't you give up medicine and accept 
Jesus as your healer?" I promised that I would. In 
the morning was able to sit up only for a short time, 
and the enemy persuaded me to wait a little longer, 
so I took my medicine, as usual. Soon I began to feel 
very strangely, 0! everything looked so dark I fe't 



200 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

as though God had left me all alone. I sent for dear 
sister. She said the Lord was leading, and wished me 
to trust Him fully. She read God's promises and 
prayed with me ; then left me alone with Him. 

I asked Him to let me know His will for myself. He 
knew I was in earnest; He, alone, knows the prayer. 
The first that I remember, I was sitting up in bed, say- 
ing: "No, Lord, I won't take the medicine." I had 
fully yielded to Him, ready to live or die, as He saw 
best. I arose much better, worked some that day, and 
by spells was very happy. That night I fell asleep for 
a little while, but soon awoke with a chill; fever fol- 
lowed, and in all my life I never passed such a terrible 
night. My room seemed to be full of devils ; all were 
pointing daggers at me and saying: "You will take 
medicine." I would answer: "I will not; Fin going to 
trust Jesus." When morning came they left me, very 
weak. My husband begged me to take the medicine, 
but I said: "No; I have promised to trust Jesus; He 
will heal me, if he wants me to live; if not, I am ready 
to go." I felt very bad all day. At night I asked the 
dear Lord to let nothing disturb me, and I slept as 
sweetly as a child. O, how I did thank the Lord when 
I awoke, and felt a great deal better, and continued to 
improve. 

Sister Dudley was holding meetings about eight 
blocks away. After a few days I walked to the meet- 
ing, and was prayed for and anointed in the name of 
the Lord for perfect deliverance. I realized no 
change, but believed God's promises were true. The 
next morning I felt well, and my whole being was full 
of praise. When the Lord heals His children He gives 
them greater blessings than they can ask, or think. I 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 201 

was well for two years, then, through overwork, had 
other attacks with my stomach. But the Lord always 
healed me; sometimes, instantly; always, more quick- 
ly than when remedies were used. I have learned that 
it means a very humble, close walk with the Lord, if 
we would retain our healing. I know by experience 
it pays to trust the Lord for our bodies as well as for 
our souls. Let us glorify God in our bodies and spirits, 
which are His. 

Our children have had sicknesses, but the Lord has 
always healed them. It is a blessed way to teach the 
children. When ours are sick they at once ask me to 
pray for them. At one time, my little girl was very 
sick with erysipelas. We had prayer for her, but she 
seemed no better. I asked if she wanted the doctor. 
She said, No, I wish you would send for Mrs. Dudley. 
She came, and Alta said she felt better while she w T as 
praying for and anointing her. To God be all the 
glory! We give none to Sister Dudley, neither does 
she want any. I praise God that He so wonderfully 
uses her to point the suffering ones to Jesus, and I pray 
earnestly that some may be benefited by reading this 
and be led to Him who is more willing to give than we 
are to receive. "According to your faith be it unto 
you." 

"Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him, 

How I've proved Him o'er and o'er, 
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus! 

Oh, for grace to trust Him more." 



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Mrs. EL A. Crane, Sparta, Kent Co., Mich. — Four 
years ago last March I was much troubled with my left 
ear. I was somewhat deaf, and from a gathering in my 
head there was a very offensive discharge, for at least 
six weeks, when a peculiar worm-like substance v> T as 
expelled, the discharge continuing. At this time I 
went to Beulah Home for a short visit. 

Mrs. Dudley, observing the cotton I had in my ear, 
spoke of it, asking if I did not know it was liable to 
cause deafness. Then I told her my trouble. She re- 
plied: "Let us have it healed." I removed the cotton, 
we knelt, and I was enabled to believe that the Lord 
would heal me. I just took my healing from His hand 
as I would take a gift from a friend, and could at once 
see that there was no more discharge from my ear; no 
tenderness; and my hearing was fully restored. The 
wax formed in a natural way, and the ear has been per- 
fectly well ever since. 



Mrs. Lizzie Miller, Casnovia, Kent Co., Mich. — All 
glory to Jesus for His healing power ! 

I had what the doctors called the old-fashioned ling- 
ering consumption for fifteen years. The year before 
I was healed there were frequent hemorrhages of the 
lungs. Dr. Luke, of Canton, Ohio, where I then lived, 
said that my left lung was entirely gone and the right 
one badly affected. In 1879, when I left Ohio for Mich- 
igan, Dr. Scott said I could not live six weeks. I could 
not walk alone. Had not spoken aloud for more than 
three months. On my arrival, Dr. Coon was called and 
said I was in the last stages of consumption, I began 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 203 

to study my Bible and to believe I could be healed by 
the Lord. I gave up all human means and in three 
months was perfectly well. In 1892 Dr. Coon exam- 
ined me for a life insurance policy, and was surprised 
to find that I had two strong lungs and could expand 
them three inches. In 1888 a tumor came in my left 
side. It was very heavy and growing so fast I could 
not get around without great pain. To satisfy my 
parents, with whom I was staying, Dr. March was 
called, who thought best to perform an operation for 
its removal, but upon examination, finding that I had 
Bright's disease also, he refused to operate upon the 
tumor, saying I could not live long. I was bed-fast sev- 
eral weeks; but knew I should get well. I told the 
doctor, and he said I would better call some one to 
pray for me; there was no human help for my case. 
No one would pray for my healing, for they believed 
I was going to die. I prayed all the time, and kept my 
hand upon the tumor. I knew it would go suddenly, 
and I wanted to feel it go. One day I became discour- 
aged and was thinking of calling another doctor, when 
a voice said to me: "Can't you trust Jesus and take 
Him as your physician?" I arose, knelt, and exclaimed: 
"Yes, I can." When I arose I felt like a new person. 
I was alone, went to work, did a two-weeks' washing, 
took up the kitchen carpet and washed a part of that, 
prepared supper, did up the work, and walked a mile 
to prayer-meeting in the evening. Upon retiring for 
the night I arranged the pillows for my sitting up, as I 
had been obliged to do for a year. The voice said to 
me: "Why don't you lie down? You are healed." 

I lay down and was soon asleep. My husband kept 
waking me. He thought I was dying, as the doctor 



204 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

had told him I was liable to drop away suddenly. In 
the morning the tumor was gone, and my kidneys w^ere 
well. I went about my work singing praises to my 
Healer. 

In 1890 I returned to Michigan and attended a Chris- 
tian Alliance Convention, held in the Division Street 
M. E. Church, Grand Bapids, where I met Mrs. Dudley, 
of whom I had heard before leaving Ohio. Soon after 
I was attacked, suddenly and severely, with inflamma- 
tion of the kidneys and bladder. I could not get the 
victory alone, as I had done before. I wrote to Sister 
Dudley for prayer, and was healed as soon as she re- 
ceived the letter and prayer was offered. 

Later I was taken with severe pain in my stomach 
and bowels. I was bowed together with the pain and 
could in nowise lift up myself. Dr. Vanderveen, who 
lived in the same building, pronounced it inflammation. 
I sent for Sister Dudley and was instantly healed while 
she prayed for and anointed me. I arose and walked 
with her down a flight of stairs and to the street corner 
with perfect ease. 

Last winter I had very bad spells with m.j heart. 
One day I was with my sister-in-law, in Dr. Whiteagle's 
office, when the doctor, noticing my condition, said 
there was no cure for such an inherited heart disease. 
I went to "Beulah" for prayer. This time was not in- 
stantly healed, but learned sweet lessons of trust while 
the healing went on. 

All praise to Him, who did strengthen and heal my 
heart. It is good to trust in Jesus, my Saviour, Sancti- 
fler, Healer, and coming Lord. 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 205 

Mrs. Mary Halladay, Stetson, Mich. — To honor and 
glorify my dear Saviour I write the story of my healing, 
trusting that the Holy Spirit may use it to lead other 
suffering ones to search the Scriptures for deliyerance 
from all the power of the enemy. 

I was an invalid for oyer eight years, with troubles 
such as many of my sisters haye. During the greater 
part of that time I was unable to do eyen a little sew- 
ing. I would be in bed for months at a time, and was 
almost constantly under the care of a physician, or was 
trying some remedy that had been recommended to me. 
At times I would get a little relief and gain a little 
strength, but would soon be as sick as ever. At last I 
strained my side, from a very slight exertion, and 
shortly after was taken down so ill and weak that I 
could not turn in bed when the weight of the bed cloth- 
ing was resting upon me. Then I became so weak that 
I could not turn myself at all, or even feed myself. I 
had read some testimonials of healing in the Christian 
Alliance. Had heard, too, in other ways, of some who 
had been healed by the Lord. I had been treated so 
much by physicians, with so little success, and as I was 
getting weaker, I believed that there was no other help 
but in the Lord. I threw aside my remedies, for I did 
not believe I would be trusting the Lord if I depended 
upon them. I believed that God was able and willing 
to heal me, but did not quite understand hovr to take 
the healing. My husband sent for Mrs. Fletcher, of 
Toronto, who kindly came and taught me many Bible 
truths that I had not known before. She anointed me, 
and the Lord gave me courage to arise in His strength. 
Praise His name! I was healed. 

But it was just according to my faith that I received 



206 SOME OP THE FRUITS OF 

strength. Satan discouraged me with symptoms. I 
wrote to Mrs. Fletcher about it. She wrote, in reply, 
that it was the enemy who was troubling me, and that 
I was to press forward in the strength of the Lord, be- 
lieving that I was healed, as I had obeyed the command 
in James 5:14. I began to sew, and after doing a large 
quantity of that, I commenced doing my own house- 
work. I continued doing it until the next summer, 
wiien the enemy made me believe I had been working 
too hard. I was taken so ill it seemed that I could not 
live, but did not feel that I could take healing unless I 
again obeyed the command in James. During my first 
illness we were living in Canada ; after my healing we 
moved to Michigan. As it was not then convenient to 
send for Mrs. Fletcher, my husband wrote to Mrs. Dud- 
ley, of Grand Kapids; but as I grew weaker and sank 
so rapidty, and very soon could not move nryself, he 
telegraphed for her to come at once, and to pray that I 
might live until she reached me. 

Satan hindered her, she was directed to the wrong 
boat, missed the train, and was delayed twenty-four 
hours. They told her at the station that I might not 
be alive, as I had been in a dying condition for several 
days. She reached me late in the evening. 

After prayer, in the strength of the Lord I turned 
myself in bed. Bible instructions were given me in 
the forenoon of the next day, I was anointed, and in 
the name of the Lord arose and dressed, with a little 
assistance, walked a few steps, and sat up some time. 
On the next day went out to my meals and began to 
help about the work, and soon to do it with better 
health than before. Praise His name! 

My sister gave her heart to Jesus at the same hour 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 207 

that I was healed. We immediately opened cottage 
prayer meetings at the hour of the "Beulah" meetings, 
with much blessing. I have learned to take the life of 
the Saviour and to praise Him more. If we do not 
praise the Lord for what blessings we have received, 
we need not expect much more until we have done our 
duty. Phil. 4:6. What a complete Saviour we have. 
One who has made full atonement for our sins and 
sicknesses. Oh, that more of God's children would see 
their privilege as it is in Jesus. 

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me 
bless His Holy name! 



Mrs. L. Crowell, 723 Hall Street, Grand Bapids.— I 
had nervous prostration, heart trouble, and indigestion; 
could eat very little, and everything I did eat distressed 
me. There was great irregularity of the bowels, awful 
weakness; could not be on my feet at all without in- 
creasing the difficulty. There was much pain in the 
back of my head and neck; could neither sew nor read. 

During these years of suffering five doctors attended 
me. The last one, Dr. Fuller, gave his opinion that 
there was no hope of cure unless it should be in a surg- 
ical operation, full of risk and attended with great un- 
certainty as to its results. The more medicine I took 
for my stomach the worse it became. I depended upon 
a nervine to sustain me; was always worse when I 
stopped taking it. Dr. Fuller advised me to use no 
medicine except the nervine; I was much discouraged. 

After a few months I went with Mrs. George to the 
weekly prayer meeting at "Beulah" ; there I requested 



208 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

prayer, and the pain left my side for the first time in 
months. I continued to attend the meetings, and 
through the instructions given was led to trust Jesus; 
received the anointing and was healed. 

Within a year I was taken very severely with 1^ 
grippe; fell back, and resorted to cough medicines, but 
derived no benefit. My lungs were very sore. I had 
chills, fever, and night-sweats. My strength was fail- 
ing rapidly. I visited "Beulah," received Bible instruc- 
tions, prayer and anointing, and was made well and 
happy. 



Mrs. Libbie Proud, Manton, Wexford Co., Mich., De- 
cember 20, 1894. — From my youth up I have always 
been sickly. Besides having all the diseases of child- 
hood, I had chronic inflammatory rheumatism, a severe 
attack of brain fever, two attacks of typhoid fever, and 
black erysipelas very badly. I believe now that my 
life was spared in answer to the prayers of God's people. 

During ten years of my married life could but just 
keep about in pain and suffering, because of weakness 
peculiar to my sex. There were several premature 
births; at the last I came very near to death, and doc- 
tors said that uterine ligaments of the right side were 
broken. I was obliged to wear a support and use rem- 
edies and expected to suffer on as long as I lived, but 
our kind Heavenly Father sent Mrs. Dudley this way, 
and I learned that it was not necessary for me to en- 
dure such distress, or to trust in human means for re- 
lief, and I was enabled to lay my sickness and infirmi- 
ties over on Jesus, my burden-bearer. Now, for nearly 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 209 

six years, I have been proving that the Great Physician 
is all I need. 

A number of times since my healing I have sinned 
through overwork and worry and suffered in conse- 
quence, yet have been healed each time through faith 
in the Divine Healer. When my faith became too small 
and weak I have written to the "Beulah" Home for 
prayers. 

Within four years I have given birth to three chil- 
dren, the last a nice ten-pound boy; a very short and 
easy confinement ; almost no sickness, and with scarce- 
ly any discomfort. 

Oh, my suffering sisters, praise the Name of our De- 
liverer! 1 Tim. 2:15. Prayer and trust are better 
than drugs. The life of Jesus keeps one well and happy 
and readv for His service. 



Miss Ida L. Conrad, Ludington, Mich., May, 1895. — 
For years I was troubled with a very weak back, so 
that I was not able to do any heavy work, especially 
anything requiring me to stoop over, as in washing. 
Sometimes, after I had taxed my strength too far, I 
suifered from backache for weeks; but I bore it patient- 
ly, thinking there was no remedy for it, and that what 
could not be cured must be endured. 

But the Lord saw, and had compassion on me, send- 
ing His servants, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley, to tell me that 
the Lord meant just what He said when He declared 
to us, His people, that "Himself took our infirmities and 
bare our sicknesses." 

They showed me plainly from the Word of God that 



210 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

Jesus is the Healer of soul aud body, "The same yester- 
day, to-day, aud forever," aud the Holy Spirit brought 
the truth home to my heart, so that I dared uot reject 
it. Praise His uame! 

As soon as I saw that the Lord had made it my privi- 
lege to claim healing, it also became my duty, and I 
stepped out upon His promises of healing as did the 
children of Israel upon the promised land, and claimed 
what my feet trod upon, in the name of the Lord. And 
He speedily gave me the victory; but not without cour- 
age and action on my part; for at this time my mother's 
health had broken down and I was called home to re- 
lieve her of the housework on the farm, and my strength 
was about failing, when the Lord sent me this word of 
His willingness and power to heal. I at once took Him 
for my strength, and though I was tired and had a very 
lame back, so that it seemed impossible to go on with 
my work, I arose in the name of the Lord and did a large 
washing, and to my joy found myself actually rested 
when it was done. 

From that time I have had strength for all my Lord 
has given me to do. So I know by experience that what 
He has promised He is able and will perform. For 
three years Jesus has been my only physician, and at 
every time when the enemy has attacked my body He 
has delivered me, and I never before enjoyed such good 
health. The Lord has taught me that He is the source 
of life and I can draw from Him continually; or, in 
other words, He is in me a well of water springing up 
into everlasting life. 

O, praise Him for His name Jehovah Eophi. 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 211 

Miss Carrie Johnson, Mission Worker, Grand Rapids, 
July 22, 1895. — Through overwork and exposure my 
lungs became much diseased, extremely sore, and pain- 
ful, and I was taken very ill with chills, fever, and 
night-sweats. A severe cough, raising a great deal of 
phlegm, especially in the morning. After one week of 
great suffering I sent for Sister Dudley and was anoint- 
ed and prayed with. 

The weakness was so great it was all I could do to 
kneel, or w^alk across the room. I was very much 
helped, but I felt I needed rest. Some friends thought 
I ought to go and help in the evening meeting. I walked 
to the Mission, about four blocks away; took charge of 
the young people's meeting, and played the organ in 
the regular service. I began to grow weary and start- 
ed for home; was taken with a chill, followed by hard 
pain in my right lung. This continued three days, then 
went to my side. The cough increased, I lost flesh rap- 
idly, and the devil told me I would die of quick con- 
sumption in about two weeks, and my friends thought 
so, too. 

I said: "Lord, if my work is done, I am willing." 
But I did not believe it was; and asked Jesus, if He 
would heal me, to take those thoughts from my mind. 
They left me at once. 

I soon went to "Beulah," and remained ten days. I 
had been there five days w'hen the chills, fever, and 
night-sweats left me. Gradually the cough and all 
other symptoms went away. I regained flesh and 
strength. Praise the Lord! From that time, now one 
year, I have been in health, and have worked night and 
day in the Mission, singing in the nightly open-air meet- 
ings. I realize, more and more, with a heart full of 



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praise and gratitude, what the dear Lord has done 
for me. 



Mrs. Nettie Pratt Card, of Corunna, was converted 
at the age of eleven. The same year she fell from a 
swing backward, seriously injuring her head and spine, 
causing many years of suffering. Some years later, 
fell again upon frosty steps with her arms full of wood, 
and for eight years suffered great pain in her hand and 
arm. Was again prostrated and placed under severe 
medical treatment, which resulted in very little good. 
Another fall rendered her almost helpless, with in- 
creased suffering, baffling the skill of the best physi- 
cians. About two j^ears before her healing, a severe 
cold terminated in asthmatic bronchitis; came near 
death. Her doctor sent the wrong remedies, which she 
could not take; when he came and discovered his mis- 
take, was glad she had not taken them. This illness 
left her with chronic bronchitis, also with weak eyes. 

In February, 1889,^ she was again seized with acute 
bronchitis, extreme inflammation of the eyes with 
granulation of the lids. For many months she was 
obliged to remain in a darkened room alone; and yet 
not alone, for her Saviour was with her. She suffered 
much, and the thought of being blind was terrible. 
Her physician said she must not cry under any circum- 
stances, and must stop whistling and singing the 
hymns which had cheered her lonely hours, lest her 
throat become worse; stating frankly that her dis- 
eases were incurable, and advising her to consult Dr. 
Flemming Carrow, a specialist, of Bay City, who cor- 
roborated the statement of her horae physician, but 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 213 

advised her to return and remain under his daily treat- 
ment. 

In a few days a friend, Miss Eva Lindsley, who had 
been healed through the united prayers of Mrs. Dora 
Dudley, of Grand Eapids, and Miss Carrie Judd, of Buf- 
falo, called to see her, and related her wonderful ex- 
perience, saying God was no respecter of persons, and 
He w ould also heal her. After praying with her, Miss 
Lindsley told of Mrs. Dudley and of the "Beulah" Home, 
in Grand Rapids. 

As she was unable to be taken there, a friend, Miss 
Libbie Murray, wrote, requesting prayer for her. That 
evening she gave up all remedies and sought the Lord 
for healing. Soon she was taken with neuralgia of the 
stomach, and the evil one whispered : "Now you'll have 
to send for the doctor and take medicine again." She 
answered : "No, I have placed myself in the hands of 
the Lord; by His grace I will not yield."' In a little 
time the pain ceased and she rested well. The next 
day she asked Jesus to strengthen her eyes so that she 
could see to read her coarse print Bible. Her joy was 
great as she once more read the sacred Word. She ex- 
pressed a wish to attend the weekly prayer meeting. 
Eva replied: "Maybe the Lord wants you to go; why 
not ask Him?" She had not walked so far for more 
than four years. When she stepped upon the veranda 
a strange sensation very like electricity thrilled her, 
but she did not realize that she was healed. 

A letter was received from Mrs. Dudley, naming the 
hour they would pray for her. During the three days 
of preparation by prayer and Bible study the Lord 
seemed very near, and gave her some hard questions 
to answer. Among them were: "Are you willing to 



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glorify my name if you are healed? To give up worldly 
pleasures, and all your friends for my sake? Are you 
willing to die?" She replied: "To die is gain." At this 
decision the glory of God filled the room. She felt the 
presence of her Saviour and His loving hand rested 
upon her head. She seemed to stand at the gate of 
Heaven with only a breath between her and the bliss of 
paradise, thinking how x sublimely happy she would be 
to pass into the city beyond, when a sw T eet voice said: 
"You are not to go now, for I have healed you." 

The following day she attended church, morning and 
evening. This seemed like a dream to her, as she had 
not seen a well day for eleven years. At the hour 
prayer was to be offered for her at "Beulah" a few 
friends met with her to wait upon the Lord; His pres- 
ence was very manifest and His dear hands rested upon 
her head during the entire meeting, and she exclaimed: 
"Oh, the rapture of His presence; the fullness of His 
love!" She immediately went about household duties, 
gaining rapidly in strength, and able to eat anything 
she chose. 

November 16, 1890, Mrs. Card went to Beulah Home 
for Bible instructions, and was so greatly blessed she 
was strongly impressed that if her neighbor, Mr. Iver- 
son, should visit the Home he also would be healed. 
He had been thrown from a moving train of cars, 
breaking one rib from the spine and one in front; also 
something about the collar bone and shoulder were 
broken; the doctors did not quite agree what it was. 
Also the elbow was injured. Each doctor said he could 
cure him, but he grew T worse, suffering very much night 
and day. He could not feed himself w T ith his right 
hand, and, if in one position long at a time, could not 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 215 

move it without doing so with the other hand. He 
could not change his clothes alone. After hearing sev- 
eral Bible readings he received the anointing, and, 
while Mr. and Mrs. Dudley's hands were yet on his 
shoulder, all felt the working of the shoulder while 
the Lord was doing the work. When they arose 
from their knees they said: "In the name of Jesus, 
stretch forth your hand." He did so. Truly, it was 
as whole as the other. He said he felt the heal- 
ing begin in a very sore spot in the back and 
work up the shoulder and neck, and dow^n in the front 
and then he realized he was healed. He at once began 
to test the genuineness of Christ's healing power by 
moving his arm with perfect ease in every direction; 
also by feeding and dressing himself. He has been w^ell 
and in good working order ever since. 

Three years later Mrs. Card paid another visit to Beu- 
lah. For some time she had been suffering with neu- 
ralgia of the stomach and inflammation of the bladder. 
Her husband joined with her in prayer, but the victory 
did not come at home. While at Beulah she learned 
beautiful lessons of faith, was healed, and filled with 
the Holy Ghost. She has never had the least desire to 
return to physicians or any human remedies. 



Miss Libbie Murray, Chesaning, Mich., September 
12, 1895. — From the effects of a cold she had a bad 
cough, and what the doctors said was consumption, 
and a form of congestive chills; they had told her 
mother she could not keep her Libbie long. 

After Eva Lindsay w T as healed she wrote to "Beu- 
lah" for prayers for herself and Nettie Pratt. The ene- 



216 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

my whispered : "You will have to take quinine to keep 
off those chills." Very soon she felt a chill coming upon 
her, and her mother, as usual, went to help her. Libbie 
said: "Mother, let's pray first; I have taken Jesus for 
my physician." (She had not wanted anyone to know 
this.) Then Jesus asked her if she would tell that she 
had taken Him. She was willing, and soon became 
warm, slept sweetly, and the next clay was as well as 
usual. 

Each fall for three of four years she was threatened 
with chills; but after she had no more fear of them she 
was no more threatened with them. After having la 
grippe five years ago she was nearly blind in her right 
eye; both eyes troubled her very much. Some months 
later she w^ent to "Beulah" and was much benefited 
both physically and spiritually. Has been there three 
times and learned sweet lessons of trust. Now she 
praises the Lord, for her sight is nearly perfect, saying: 
"Oh, it pays to trust Jesus." 

At another time she had rheumatism; her feet and 
limbs were swollen, and so tender she could not endure 
anything to touch one. She wrote to Mrs. Dudley for 
prayers, and Thursday afternoon during their prayer 
hour she was healed, and has never had any rheuma- 
tism since. It is now eight years since she saw it her 
privilege to trust Jesus for her body. She says that 
she has not always felt well, but has trusted Jesus, and 
been drawn nearer to Him. He is very precious to her 
and she has no other desire than to trust Him fully. 



Miss Maggie E. Townley, leader of the Eevival Band 
Mission Work in Grand Bapids, was blessedly healed 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 217 

of a complication of diseases, and called into the Evan- 
gelistic work. For several years she was lacking in 
Scriptural knowledge on the subject of Divine heal- 
ing, and was not able to hold the blessing of health by 
faith, but depended upon many little remedies. 

When she came to Grand Rapids to engage in the 
Waterloo Street Mission work, she became acquainted 
with Mrs. Dudley, and her clear spiritural teaching on 
full salvation for soul and body. She at once accepted 
God's gracious promises made for His consecrated, 
trusting children, and became strong in the Lord and 
in the power of His might for every good word and 
work. Since engaging in the Revival Band work in 
Grand Rapids, a violent attack of la grippe left her 
in a weak, suffering condition, and with a hard cough. 
Mrs. Dudiey was called to see a young man at the Mis- 
sion building, and while there prayed with and anoint- 
ed Miss Townley, and the blessed Holy Ghost quick- 
ened and healed her. She has a very frail constitution, 
but has learned to take Divine strength and health for 
all the great work God has committed to her care. 



Mr. Edw x ards of Fremont was instantly healed of 
chronic erysipelas in the nose and upper lip, of six 
years' standing, which had caused him great suffering. 
He w^as at the same time delivered from the appetite 
for tobacco, to which he had been a perfect slave for 
thirty years. 

He told Mr. John Miller of Mrs. Dudley's visit to 
the place and how he was healed through her prayers. 
Mr. Miller sent at once for Mrs. Dudley to come and 



218 SOME OP THE FRUITS OF 

see his wife, who had been sick a long time with cancer 
and tumor, and had been given up by the doctors. She 
was a great sufferer and had not walked or stood for 
four months. Her mind also was in a pitiful state, 
causing her to wring her hands and cry, lost, lost. 

Mrs. Dudley closed the door upon all, and alone with 
the sufferer first cast out the devils in Jesus' name, 
and asked the blessed Lord to bring His quietness 
upon her and fill her with Himself. 

She immediately became quiet, was then anointed 
and prayed for. At once she rose from her bed, dressed 
and walked out to dinner, and ate just what the others 
ate — meat, potatoes, cabbage, mince-pie, etc. She had 
not been able to take any hearty food for several 
months. While she was at the table her husband, who 
had been putting out his team, came into the kitchen, 
and was so surprised that he did not come into the 
dining-room. She arose from the table, went into the 
kitchen, stood and talked with him, then she returned 
and finished her dinner. Her son was told that his 
mother was dressed and walking about, but he said 
he did not believe it. Several months later he said: 
"Things have been very different in our home since 
mother was healed." 

He has since given his heart to Jesus. Mr. Miller 
said it was the power of God, for his wife could not 
stand any more than that stick which he held in his 
hand. Mrs. Miller says she has never done larger 
washings or harder work than she has done since her 
healing. 

None of the healed ones are more filled with the 
Holy Spirit and overflowing with praises and thanks- 
giving than dear Sister Miller. 



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Mrs. Humphrey, Cedar Springs, Mich., October 14, 
1895. — Many years ago, when Mrs. Humphrey lived in 
England, one of her lower limbs broke out in sores 
from the effects of milk-leg. She suffered much, but 
often while dressing the sores she would get so blessed 
that a near neighbor would call to inquire the cause of 
her happiness, when she would tell her she felt the 
assurance that the Lord was going to heal her; but it 
grew worse, and for w T eeks at a time she could not do 
her housework or step upon the diseased foot. The best 
medical treatment availed nothing. After coming to 
America her general health failed and she was con- 
fined to her bed the greater part of the time. 

She had a wonderful Christian experience and when 
she first heard Sister Dudley declare the Gospel of 
healing, the truth was acceptable; but her mind not 
being clear upon some points, she continued to em- 
ploy a physician and was brought very low. Her 
limb was terribly swollen, of a dark-purple color, and 
full of corruption. There were seven running sores 
upon it, from which pieces of bone had been discharged, 
and a large, hard swelling under the knee would not 
soften. 

She was reduced to a skeleton; the urinary discharge 
was very copious and nearly as dark as ink; there was 
awful pain in her spine, and for seven nights sleep 
could not be induced. 

At this time two sisters were led to go and pray for 
her healing. When they reached her she was so low 
that, although intimately acquainted with them, she 
did not know who they were. Her eyes were glassy; 
the presence of death could be felt. The sisters knelt 
to pray and in the all-powerful Name laid their hands 



220 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

upon her. Soon Jesus manifested Himself, and the 
three began to shout and praise God aloud. Sister 
Humphrey said she plainly saw Jesus upon the cross, 
and as the hands were laid upon her in His name, she 
felt a prickling sensation and a strange quickening go 
through her whole body, especially in the dreadfully 
diseased part. She sat up and moved the limb with- 
out pain. The glassy look left her eyes. She ate and 
slept; the swelling broke and discharged without 
pain, poultice, or medicine; nearly all the sores healed. 

Sister Dudley was sent for and anointed her, after 
which her recovery was very rapid. 

All discoloration was removed, the sores entirely 
healed, and though she had suffered for twenty-five 
years, she was soon able to walk two miles to church, 
to tell of what the Lord had done for soul and body. 



Mrs. Addie Kies Whedon, 429 Lansing Avenue, Jack- 
son, Mich. — "Bless the Lord, O my soul; and forget not 
all His benefits, who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who 



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How my soul goes out in praise and thanksgiving 
to God for the healing of my poor diseased body, after 
three physicians had decided that nothing could be 
done for me except I should undergo a most dangerous, 
painful and delicate surgical operation. I had suf- 
fered for three years with two uterine lacerations, the 
edges of which were calloused and covered with hard 
bunches, with inflammation, enlargement, and prolap- 
sus, accompanied with a very, very disagreeable and 
offensive discharge. 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 221 

My kidneys were also so diseased that the odor of 
the evacuation was like decayed meat, and the suffer- 
ing and pain I endured were so excruciating that I 
often cried for death. 

My throat and bronchial tubes were badly diseased; 
it hurt me to move my arms in any way, or to rise up 
when lying down. 

Disease had so weakened my mind that I could not 
remember even my own name at times. My nervous 
system was prostrated, and such fear took possession 
of me that I was afraid of my shadow. I was often 
confined to my bed for weeks at a time, and nothing 
relieved me. 

A friend, Mrs. Winchester, told me about the Beulah 
Home, Grand Eapids; she wished me to go there and 
meet Mrs. Dudley. 

I spoke to my physician about Divine Healing, and 
he said if the Lord could set a bone and heal it, then 
I might be cured, for my disease came under the same 
category. 

I asked the Lord to direct me in a clear way, that I 
might know if it was His will I should be healed. At 
last I fully decided to trust Jesus. The time I planned 
to go to Grand Eapids (which was the day of the week- 
ly meeting at "Beulah") I was taken with heart failure 
and brought down to death's door; the marks of death 
were on my face and finger nails, and purple spots 
were all over my body. 

As I did not reach "Beulah" in time for the meeting 
united prayer was offered for me, and at that very 
hour a great change came over me for the better. The 
following week I was carried to and from the hack 
into the car. When I reached Charlotte I thought I 



222 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

would have to take the return train home, but I cried 
unto the Lord and strength was given, so I finally 
reached "Beulah." 

Mrs. Dudley gave me a Bible reading on the Scrip- 
tural causes of sickness. The Spirit pressed home the 
truth, but I rebelled at the thought that sin was the 
cause of my diseases, and that I was under the curse. 
I went to my room, and after a great struggle God 
gave me the victory. In the evening Mrs. Dudley 
anointed and prayed with me. I could feel my old 
diseased self pass away, and my whole being was 
filled with a new life. 

I was instantly healed and seemed as light as a 
feather. Praise the Lord! I came home Monday 
evening. Tuesday afternoon I walked three-fourths 
of a mile to see a lady who thought I would die on the 
train. I have gained fifteen pounds in six weeks. I 
can never express what God has done for me. As I 
go about my daily duties my heart is overflowing with 
praise continually. Dr. Littler says niy disease had 
assumed a cancerous form, and my healing was a 
miracle. 



Miss Carrie M. Atherton, Indianapolis, Ind. — At a 
critical period of my mother's life she had a very severe 
sickness. She was prayed with and anointed for her 
healing, but was not able to leave her bed. Your lit- 
tle book, "Beulah," reached me about 7:30 A. M. I 
took it up stairs for mother to read. She read until 
about 10 A. M., when she received a great blessing. 
She immediately got up, praising the Lord, and staid 
up, and does not take any medicine. She has been 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 223 

sick many times since, but the Lord always raises her 
up in answer to prayer. 

A few weeks since she was very sick from blood 
poisoning. Your book has been such a comfort and 
help to her all the w r ay through these tests, and it has 
been a blessing to many others, also, to whom I have 
loaned it. 

My visit to "Beulah" has been a great blessing to 
me, and the remembrance of it will always be very 
precious. The Bible instructions you gave me on 
praising the Lord at all times, and many other im- 
portant subjects, have been a great means of grace to 
me and others who have received these truths. We 
have studied your Bible readings with great profit, 
and I have been wonderfully strengthened in my home 
work and cares, and have answered God's call to serv- 
ice in various ways outside. 

Praise God for all His wonderful blessings of love. 



Mrs. Phoebe Ewing, Lentz, Mich. — I gladly testify 
of what the Lord has done for me, that other sick and 
suffering ones may look to Jesus the Great Physician 
for soul and body. I had been in poor health for 
twenty years, and for sixteen years I could do but lit- 
tle work of any kind. I could not be on my feet much, 
and had suffered greatly from pain in my head and 
spine. I have been treated by many good physicians, 
sometimes with benefit, but nothing that was lasting. 

In the fall of 1890 I was afflicted with inflammation 
in my eyes, caused, the doctor said, by poor health; 
our family physician attended me, but as I was not bene- 



224 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

flted I went to St. Charles, where I took treatment from 
December 18th to March. Had to sit blindfolded in a 
darkened room all the time, but was no better. From 
there I went to Saginaw, where I was treated by Dr. 
Ball, a noted oculist, who temporarily cured the sore- 
ness and inflammation, but I was not well; suffered 
continually with pain in my eyes, head and spine. 
My nervous system was in a sad condition. I could 
neither rest nor sleep because of sharp, darting pains, 
and was losing strength all the time. 

I again went to Dr. Ball, of Saginaw. He said the 
optic nerve was affected, but gave no hope of cure; 
could only help to make me more comfortable, and 
said I could never do any more work. 

In December I heard of a friend who had been healed 
at "Beulah," Grand Bapids. My first thought was, If 
the Lord can heal others He can heal me. And in a 
few days I decided to go to "Beulah," and felt that I 
ought not to take any more medicine, but yielded to 
the suggestion that I had the medicine and it would 
be some time before I could go, so I took a dose and 
retired; but I could not rest or sleep for the pain in 
every part of my body. This I endured until the 
fourth night, when the Lord showed me I was not to 
trust any longer to human skill, so I said, Lord, HI 
not take any more medicine; if I am to trust Thee for 
healing, I will commence now and trust all to Thee. 
Asking for more faith to be given me, I soon fell asleep 
and rested well all night, feeling better in the morning 
than I had for a long time. 

I went to "Beulah" February 10th, 1891. Sabbath 
evening, the 15th, I was anointed and instantly healed. 
Oh, the happiness of that hour! I felt that I could go 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 225 

out and walk to the ends of the earth, praising the 
Lord. I went up stairs to niy room feeling as light as 
a feather; before that it had been hard work for ine. 
I continued to wear glasses, but made a great mistake 
in doing so, for really I do not think it was necessary. 

I returned home and went to work, doing all the 
work to be found in a farmhouse, besides making gar- 
den in the spring. I walked to church and to all my 
neighbors. In a few months I weighed twenty-five 
pounds more than I ever weighed before. I have had 
many tests of faith; once from overwork and poison 
from wall-paper causing inflammation in my eyes. 
Indeed I was almost blind. 

When my son-in-law took me to "Beulah" I was in 
a worse condition than I had ever been before. The 
least ray of light gave me most intense suffering. I 
could not see the cars, and when we reached "Beulah" 
I could not see the house. I asked the Great Physi- 
cian not only to take away the pain, but to restore my 
sight, and enable me to see without glasses — not so 
much for my own comfort as that others might see 
what the Lord would do for those who trust Him fully. 

One evening soon after I was anointed at our family 
worship Mrs. Dudley gave me a coarse-print Bible, and 
asked me to read. I told her I would be glad to do 
so, but I thought she would have to excuse me this 
time. Mrs. D. said, "How do you know you can't read; 
try it and see." I said, "I will." I opened the Word 
but could not see the coarse print at the top of the 
page. Mrs. D. laid her hands in Jesus' name on my 
head and prayed. After a little I saw the words, "I 
will"; then, in a short time, other words came out 
plainly, and I read to the end of the line. Then fol- 



226 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

lowed a long time of waiting upon the Lord before I 
could read any more. 

Mrs. Dudley prayed with me three times, and com- 
menced singing. I sang with her, and soon the print 
became plain to me, so that I read this verse through : 
"I will never forget Thy precepts, for with them Thou 
hast quickened me." I was able to see well after this 
without the aid of glasses, and have never worn them 
since. 

Before returning to my home I requested prayers for 
my unconverted daughter, that she might be saved. 
When I reached home I found that our prayers were 
answered. 

Praise the Lord! 



Mrs. Carrie Chamberlain, Wayland, Allegan Co., 
Mich. — At the birth of my first child, because of the 
doctor's hurry, ether was administered, and instru- 
mental delivery occasioned serious laceration of uterus 
and perinaeum. 

The suffering that followed cannot be described. 
Could not leave my bed for twenty-two weeks. Em- 
ployed various physicians, patent remedies, and every- 
thing that promised the least relief, but my recovery 
was only partial, and I was never well. I had no 
thought of Christ, no concern about my soul. 

Six years after my first sickness a premature con- 
finement occurred, which was immediately followed by 
severe malarial fever, and next an attack of la grippe. 
There was complete nervous exhaustion, and all the 
horrors of nervous dyspepsia to be endured. For 
seven months I could do absolutely nothing; could 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 227 

not stand upon my feet at all, or sit up but for a few 
moments at a time. The excitement occasioned by the 
call of a friend would last for hours, and I feared to 
see anyone. There were innumerable sinking spells 
when it seemed that life must go out. 

At this time I was induced to try the treatment of 
a Christian Scientist. At first experienced relief, but 
soon sensations of unrest and increased nervousness 
instead. This was my condition, when one day a 
young girl w ho was helping with the work of my home 
said: "Why don't you go to 'Beulah' and be healed ?" 

To my inquiries as to the whereabouts of "Beulah," 
she replied that she did not know, but thought it was 
in an adjoining town where her father, Mr. Hyden- 
bourgh, went and was healed of nervous dyspepsia, 
through the prayers of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley, who were 
holding meetings there. She procured Mrs. Dudley's 
book and I heard it read, and her mother proposed to 
write and solicit prayers for me. To this I willingly 
consented. 

Upon the day prayer was to be offered for me at 
"Beulah" my weakness was extreme. Several friends 
called, and my exhaustion was complete. Suddenly, 
indescribable sensations of peace and rest filled my 
bod} 7 , a strange, new strength possessed me. I sat up 
and visited with my friends, surprised at myself, but 
conscious that I was better. After the last caller went 
away the expected reaction did not occur. It was 
found, upon inquiry, that the marked change for the 
better in my condition took place at the very hour my 
case was presented to the Great Physician by the be- 
lieving ones at the Faith Home. For several days I 



228 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

continued to improve, then, through worrying over 
household matters, there was a relapse. 

With the return of weakness and distress came 
strong desire to visit "Beulah" and learn more of the 
Healer, concerning whom I was so very ignorant. Ar- 
rangements were soon made for my leaving home. My 
friend, Mrs. Hydenbourgk, was to accompany and care 
for me, but on the morning of the day we had selected 
for our trip to Grand Eapids I felt entirely unable to 
make a start, that once accomplished it seemed I could 
never endure the suffering and fatigue of the journey. 

When we reached Grand Eapids I could not stand 
one moment alone. Was kindly assisted from the 
train. The hackman carried me up the steps at "Beu- 
lah," I was helped to a couch, and the pain and weak- 
ness of that hour can never be forgotten. Mrs. Dudley 
came, and laying her hands upon me, prayed that all 
debility and suffering might be removed. I felt 
stronger very soon and ate heartily at dinner, and what 
I ate did not distress me. Yet for a long time I had 
been unable to take scarcely any food without discom- 
fort. Under the forceful Bible lessons and searching 
inquiries regarding my soul-life, I became painfully 
conscious that I was a sinner, beheld Jesus, and ac- 
cepted Him as my Saviour. Yielded myself to Him, 
and received Him as the Healer of my body. 

Oh! these days of which I write were blessed days. 
The waves of Divine life were distinctly felt through 
my whole system — driving out the disease and pain, 
bringing rest and quiet to the tortured nerves. My 
attendant left, while I remained two weeks, growing 
stronger every day, taking considerable exercise about 
the house and out of doors, walking several blocks at 



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a time. My spine, which had been so badly affected 
that I could not step up one stair without falling over 
backward, now permitted me to ascend wdiole flights 
with ease. When I must leave the place which had 
become very precious to me and return to my home, 
I wrote a sister whom I wished to visit, informing her 
of my intention and when to expect me; but a slight 
change in the time of trains had just taken place and 
on entering the depot in Grand Eapids found that the 
train I should have taken had been gone fifteen min- 
utes, and I waited six long hours for another. 

At the station, one and a half miles from my sister's 
home, there was no one to meet me. Rain was falling 
and there was no other way but to walk the distance, 
which I did in the strength of the Lord. Within three 
weeks was at home, hard at work, doing my house- 
cleaning, doing all myself, and I was well. 

In the following year my little girl was born, with 
none of the trouble which attended the former sick- 
ness, and for three years more I enjoyed good health. 
During these years of trust I had many answers to my 
prayers and experienced a blessed sense of security, 
quietness and rest such as had never been mine before 
I knew the Lord. 



Miss Helen J. Salver, Ann Arbor, Mich. — "Ask and 
ye shall receive that your joy may be full." 

It was in April of 1887 that my dearest friend, Miss 
Josie Davidson, asked me, one day, if I believed in 
Divine Healing. I answered, Yes, I do. Then she 
told me of Mrs. Dudley and her work, I said, Caa I 



230 SOME OP THE FRUITS OP 

go to "Beulah?" She answered, Yes, and I went, ar- 
riving in the afternoon with a raging sick headache 
such as I was accustomed to having about three times 
a week. Mrs. Dudley came to my room to invite me 
down to prayer meeting and found me very sick. On 
coming to my side she said: "Gh, you poor, dear child; 
I have been verj' busy; I did not know you were so 
sick." 

She commanded the enemy to leave, and in Jesus' 
name laid her hands upon me and offered prayer. Then 
I went down to the meeting, where I was anointed and 
gave my body to the Lord for time and eternity. I 
was born with a weak, sickly body, and from my baby- 
hood my mother was told she would never raise me. 

At eight years of age I was taken out of school be- 
cause of valvular difficulty of the heart. I was never 
any better of this until I committed it to Jesus. I was 
a great sufferer in other way s, and the physicians said 
I could not be relieved unless I submitted to a very 
delicate and dangerous operation. I also had a seri- 
ous kidney affection which, after careful examination, 
the physician said he would not dare say was not 
Bright's disease. This caused me much pain and in- 
convenience; but two years ago the dear Lord spoke 
to me and bade me believe I was healed from that mo- 
ment and the symptoms would gradually disappear, 
and they did. Glory to His name! 

While I remained at "Beulah" I was busy every 
day. These were happy days. There I received the 
baptism of the Holy Ghost in power. For months I 
had been trusting the Lord, standing on the promise 
found in 1 John 5:14, 15. This promise has been an 
anchor to my soul ever since, especially in testing times. 



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I have pleaded it in prayer, and on its sure foundation 
have taken the thing asked for, praising the Lord for it. 

When I came home from "Beulah" I had proved the 
Lord my Jehovah Eophi. For three nights I had only 
slept five hours. However, next day I drove over forty 
miles with a friend who was strong and healthy, but 
was less tired on our return than she. In a few weeks 
we moved into a house that needed papering. I pa- 
pered the parlor, a room fifteen feet square, and with 
help papered five other rooms. 

For seven years I have not taken a drop of medicine. 
I have been twice healed of la grippe, and for three 
years have been kept from even taking cold. I go up 
and down stairs from fifteen to thirty times a day, and 
have done this for four years. 

My mother and sisters have been wonderfully healed 
many times. My friend Josie has also been healed 
in answer to prayer several times; once from poisoning 
through inhaling corrosive sublimate in gasoline, and 
once she was instantly healed, when a twenty-five- 
pound weight, falling the distance of six feet, had 
crushed her foot. 

The Lord enables me to "In everything give thanks" 
and to count all the trials of life but stepping-stones, 
which I mount with a shout of praise, and each new 
difficulty seems to be driving me as a weight is driven 
by the master-builder deeper and deeper into God's love 
and fullness. Glory to God! Hallelujah! 



Mrs. Fannie McD. Hunter, Singing Evangelist, Ful- 
ton, Ky.~I was a very ambitious, pleasure-loving girl, 



232 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

desiring every educational advantage that would de- 
velop me into a brilliant woman. Early in my career 
disease crept into my body and took a stronger hold 
upon me each year, so that my plans for education 
were in a measure defeated. The past twelve years of 
my life have been years of intense suffering. Had a 
complication of diseases so that every organ in my 
body was affected. I used every human means in my 
power for recovery. I visited springs, changed cli- 
mate, and took medical treatment from specialists, but 
with very little temporary benefit. 

In the fall of 1889 I heard teaching on Divine Heal- 
ing, gave up remedies, but did not receive the Divine 
touch, so I stopped seeking. I still believed God had 
power to heal, but my faith seemed paralyzed so I 
could not take hold on God for myself. I steadily grew 
worse. I was afflicted with catarrh all through my 
body. It had gone to my stomach, and I expected to 
die with consumption of the bowels. In the spring of 
1894 I read accounts of the healing of one of our Ken- 
tucky school presidents. This inspired hope that God 
would undertake for my healing. Soon after this the 
way was opened for me to visit Dr. Dowie's Home, in 
Chicago. Here, in answer to prayer, I received my 
first healing touch from Jesus. 

I went from there to Beulah Home, Grand Rapids, 
where I received the greatest blessing of my life. Mrs. 
Dudley anointed me with oil according to James 5:14, 
15, and I received the anointing of the Holy Ghost. 
The healing power of the Holy Spirit went through 
my entire being and I was healed of indigestion, from 
which I had suffered many years. I was also delivered 
from serious catarrhal affections which had weakened 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 233 

and disabled me in every way. I left at Beulah a 
truss, which I had been obliged to wear many years 
because of weaknesses; have not needed it since. 
Nearly a year has passed since T was healed, and I 
praise God for His keeping power. I am very busy at 
work in His vineyard, and it is marvelous the strength 
and endurance I have to bear the hardships of evangel- 
istic work. 



Mrs. Clara S. Eedmond, Evans, Mich. — For God's 
glory I wish to relate some of His dealings with me. I 
inherited disease, was sickly from childhood, could 
not eat like others, and suffered continually up to the 
time the Lord healed me in April, 1892. In 1882 I was 
consecrated and experienced the blessing of holiness, 
but was a constant sufferer. 

By my doctor's advice I tried change of climate with 
some benefit. I was much blessed by reading the tes- 
timonies of some who had been healed in answer to 
prayer, and was impressed to send for Bev. E. Wigle 
to pray with me for healing. He came, and while he 
prayed the pain left me and I received blessing, but 
being very ignorant of Satan's devices I was easily 
overcome and soon returned to medicine. Six years 
later, after hours of the most excruciating suffering, 
a little girl was given us, only to gladden our hearts 
for a moment and was gone. It was a long time before 
I recovered sufficiently to do light work. Then I be- 
gan to fail very rapidly and my sufferings were great. 
I was in constant fear and torment. Could not sleep, 
or eat scarcely anything, nor could I even hear God's 
word read. 



234 SOME OF THE FRUITS CF 

About this time Elder Middleton and wife called to 
see me and told of the Beulah Home, Grand Rapids. 
I sent for prayers and the dear little book, "Beulah," 
which husband read to me with great blessing. I 
began to see the way for me to be healed. My pastor 
was requested to come and anoint me, which he did 
not do. I was then led to send for Mrs. Dudley. While 
awaiting her coming, I examined myself and conse- 
crated all to my Lord in a deeper sense than ever be- 
fore. 

Mrs. Dudley gave us Bible readings. I at once ac- 
cepted the truth that Jesus had purchased health for 
me. Praise the Lord! Previous to this I had laid 
aside all remedies, and during the anointing such 
sweet peace filled my soul that I wept for joy. That 
night sleep came. In the morning I arose and dressed, 
worked all the forenoon, and in the afternoon rode a 
mile to a quarterly meeting. The people were much 
surprised to see me and hear me tell what the Lord 
had done. While at the meeting a stove smoked so 
that others were in tears, but it did not affect me. The 
atmosphere was heavj^ and it began to rain, but Jesus 
kept me from taking cold. 

During the night I was taken with severe pain, but 
I praised the Lord and it all ceased, so I fell into a 
quiet sleep. Husband dreamed there was trouble at 
the barn and went out to see about it. When he re- 
turned I awoke and was about to complain when the 
Spirit reproved me. We talked awhile, and I was wide 
awake when I saw the word Truth in large letters on 
the wall. I said, What is truth? and the Spirit re- 
plied, "Thy Word, God, is truth," 

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ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 235 

light, every letter in motion. A light cloud then en- 
veloped me and I began to shake; feeling God was 
there. I said, Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth. 
God then showed me the work He had for my husband 
and me. to do. John 15:16. My right arm was raised 
and held up quite a wdiile as the Holy Spirit revealed 
to me our Christian privilege of being endued with 
power from on high, so that these signs should follow 
them that believe, Mark 16:17, 18, and that I should 
anoint with oil for healing those who wished it. Since 
then the Lord has healed several in answer to our 
prayers. Our home is open to God's people. 

While God w^as showing me my work a sense of great 
unworthiness came over me, and I thought, Can it be 
possible God chooses such weak ones to work with 
Him? I then ceased shaking and became quiet, as I 
realized the commission in John 17:23. Feeling the 
life of Jesus all through me, I shouted, Glory, Glory! 
"My soul doth magnify the Lord!" And I continued 
to praise the Lord until morning. 

O, how God did speak these words all through my 
soul: "All things are possible to him that believeth." 
Toward morning the cloud of glory gradually disap- 
peared. My husband felt the power of God, saw my 
shaking, and heard me talk with Jesus. I also spoke 
to husband about the w r ork God w r as giving us, to 
which he said, Amen! 

I arose in the morning perfectly healed. I drank 
cold water and ate breakfast with a relish. All the 
organs of my body have been perfectly healthy ever 
since. The news of my healing rapidly spread, and 
people came from far and near to see if I really was 
Well and could eat like others. On July fith, 1895, after 



236 SOME OP THE FRUITS OF 

three hours' slight sickness, the Lord gave me a bright, 
perfect little son, and we claim the promise given in 
Luke 1:15. We had no doctor, and took no remedies. 
Three persons who were in the faith were with me. 
The Great Physician did wonderful things. Praise His 
name. All who know, think my sickness and recovery 
marvelous. 

Praise His holy name! 



Mrs. Dorlisca J. Wheeler, Bangor, Mich., August 6, 
1895. — In thanksgiving to Him who is able to do ex- 
ceeding abundantlv above all that we ask or think — 
the Lord who has heard my supplications — I comply 
with your request to write my testimony of healing 
through Divine Power. 

On December 8, 1890, I underwent a delicate surg- 
ical operation at the U. B. A. Home, Grand Bapids, 
Mich. On the 21th of December my surgeon said if I 
could be carried from the hack into the car I might 
return to my home in Spring Lake. For about four 
weeks my strength gradually returned, when one 
morning on awaking I thought the windows and furni- 
ture were whirling past me, and a sensation seized me 
that my feet were elevated and I was spinning on the 
back of my head. I called out, and my husband, who 
was in an adjoining room, came and raised my quiver- 
ing form. For days I was bolstered upright in my 
bed. I will not attempt to describe those dreadful 
hours when it seemed I was sinking out of life. 

In addition to this I had repeated attacks of a 
stomach trouble, from which I had suffered since child- 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 237 

hood, and which had baffled the skill of the best physi- 
cians on all the charges we had served. At last, 
through sheer distraction, I was helped out of my bed 
into a chair in the family sitting-room, with nerves so 
prostrated that I could not look at the twigs of the 
trees, as they swayed in the breeze, without experi- 
encing a sensation of passing away; and, in order to 
keep from falling, I had to close my eyes whenever a 
person passed me. 

At this time Mr. Wheeler wrote to the surgeon who 
performed the operation. (God bless all my kind phy- 
sicians.) I here pen an extract from his reply: "The 
strains of going through the operation, as well as the 
thinking about it before, and the shock of it, may have 
something to do with it and may not. At all events, 
it is proper to put off attending to the proposed work 
(another operation) until nerves and health are bet- 
ter; at some time I strongly advise the carrying out 
the intended work, believing that the benefit from 
first operation cannot be secured without the second 
one." 

Nothing seemed to rally my prostrated nerves. For 
weeks I was not left alone five minutes at a time for 
fear, in a sinking spell, I might fall to the floor. Many 
were the times I felt I was going — going. I would ask 
Mr. Wheeler to pray God to hold me, and ahvays re- 
ceived instant help. 

O, that I had known how to trust the Blessed One 
for complete deliverance. I shall never forget how 
precious the Word of God was to me. It was my con- 
stant companion. 

One morning in March, as I came out of my room, I 
looked back at the pillows that had bolstered my head 



238 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

so many weeks, and thought that not once had I fallen 
to sleep, night or day, except from sheer exhaustion and 
always awakening as from dreadful night-mare; and 
on entering the sitting-room said, "I believe I shall have 
to remain, night and day, in my chair." Soon I recog- 
nized one of those dreadful sinking spells coming over 
me. I grasped my Bible and looking up, implored the 
Father to keep me from falling. I also asked Him to 
show me something in His Word to assure me of His 
help in time of need. An impression akin to a voice 
directed me to read what James told the twelve tribes 
which are scattered abroad to do in case of sickness. 
I answered, "Yes, Lord, but that doesn't mean me." 
But I turned to the Word and read, and someway I 
was strengthened. I told Mr. Wheeler, but he soon 
put all niy hopes to flight by saying this was not an 
age of miracles, and that they were only performed 
by the apostles to establish the faith in the Christian 
church. He did not deny that even in this day some 
were healed in answer to prayer, and argued pro plus 
con as long as I could endure to listen, dwelling much 
on the nature of the oil used, and said that if a minister 
were called to pray for and anoint the sick he might 
not have faith, and then how sad would be the conse- 
quences. 

God only knows what I suffered that day, mentally 
and physically. I could not lie down — my pillow 
seemed full of thorns of terror, and I thought death 
would soon end my sufferings here. At 2 p. m. I again 
began to feel myself sinking. I grasped my Bible; 
sent up another petition for help; the same answer 
was given. I turned to the Word and began to think 
that God was not a respecter of persons. The Spirit 






ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 239 

illumined the truth and I tried to reach out by faith 
and claim the promises mine through the atoning 
blood of Christ. 

My husband marshaled every argument to persuade 
my poor weak mind to drop the subject; but I had 
called upon the Lord, and He did not allow the feeble 
spark of faith to be quenched. At evening I felt myself 
sinking, as on occasions before mentioned; I raised 
the same cry to the Lord, and the same answer was 
given. I said, "Surely this is of the Lord." I felt sure 
that Mr. Wheeler would be convinced that God's Spirit 
was leading. But, no, no. He began w r ith renewed 
vigor to persuade me not to think of anything so rash. 
I called him to my side and three times read James 
5:13, and asked him if he thought they were directions 
for God's children to-day. He answered, Yes. Then 
I said James wrote the following two. I then told him 
he was the only Elder in the Methodist church on 
whom I could call, and asked him to pray for me. 

How I poured out my soul before the Lord. I told 
Him the way w x as all new; I did not know whether 
He wished me to lay aside all remedies or not; but I 
did want Him to come to my relief. As we waited 
before Him, I could feel that Mr. Wheeler was getting 
wonderfully in earnest; doubts w T ere giving away to 
faith. Presently a peace born of Heaven filled my en- 
tire being — heart-beats, nerves, mind — all in a natural 
condition. Directly a drowsiness possessed me, some- 
thing I had not known for weeks. I immediately re- 
tired. I will not attempt to describe the sense of lux- 
ury that came over me as my head pressed the pillows. 
In five minutes' time, without the aid of medicine, I 
fell mto a deep sleep. Yes; slept like an exhausted, 



240 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

worn-out child until the clock struck two. The peace 
of the Lord was with me. I again fell asleep and at 
seven awakened with a sense of complete restoration. 
I said to my husband, I feel strong enough to begin 
work. I could not keep from singing, for I was blithe 
as a bird; but before I left the room I took a dose of 
medicine and repeated it, as the directions had been 
given, and at eleven o'clock had fallen back into my 
previous condition. 

I tried to look to the Lord, but found no comfort. 
Everything that physician and kind friends could do 
was done, but my strength rapidly failed, and I seemed 
to be approaching the end. One week from the day the 
Lord so wonderfully blessed and guided me I deter- 
mined that I would stop taking remedies and trust the 
Lord for w r hat might develop. What an hour it was 
of reaching out to know God's will, for I fully realized 
what it meant in Job: "All that a man hath will he 
give for his life." 

Presently an impression came that I should send for 
Mrs. Dudley, of the Beulah Home. I quickly replied, 
No, as I had no faith in her teaching, and had judged 
her to be working the works of witchcraft and feared 
her presence. But impressions came again and again, 
and I dared not disobej^, so asked Mr. Wheeler to wire 
for her. Then I fell to praying, that if it was not God's 
will to hedge up her way so she could not come. All 
day I prayed, Lord, if her teachings are not of Thee, 
forbid her approach. 

The six o'clock evening train came, and with it Sis- 
ter Dudley. Praise the Lord! I still dreaded to meet 
her, but as she entered the room one glance at her face 
dispelled all my fears. I grasped her hand, and wel- 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 241 

corned her in the name of the Lord, and then the hours 
that followed as she unfolded the Scriptures! I could 
but exclaim, again and again, "How precious." I had 
invited two trusting sisters, Mrs. J. Perham and Mrs. 
Westley, to be present. 

When Mrs. Dudley read Isa. 53:4 and said that 
"grief in the Hebrew signifies sickness, and then read 
Matt. 8-17, "Himself took our infirmities and bare our 
sicknesses," I cried out, Blessed Jesus, didst Thou upon 
the cross bear my sickness as w x ell as my sins? 

Just then a mighty pulsation seized me; my whole 
frame shook so that the chair in which I sat moved with 
the movement of my body. I thought perhaps God 
had sent to call me home. I had no fear. Wave after 
wave of glory flooded my soul, and the weight of His 
presence rested upon all that were in the room. Sister 
Dudley exclaimed: "You are healed." I then request- 
ed her to anoint me, as I wished to omit nothing which 
the Scriptures required. 

The next morning I went to the breakfast table, and 
for the first time in my life appreciated the significance 
of asking God's blessing on my food. The old stomach 
trouble was gone. In a week's time I was eating arti- 
cles of food that for years I could not use. I could say, 
"Surely He satisfieth my mouth with good things." 

My other difficulties began gradually to melt away. 
One other deliverance I would like to mention. A year 
from the following summer I had an attack of lung 
trouble. Mr. Wheeler, and a dear trusting sister, Mrs. 
S. Clark, united in prayer in my behalf, and God won- 
derfully manifested Himself to each of us, but no relief 
was granted. I trusted on for days, as I knew God had 
heard our prayers, and was sustained by 1 John 5:14, 15. 



242 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

During this period, my mother at Grand Rapids re- 
ceived a dangerous injury and I was summoned to her 
bedside. For days we watched over her; my lungs 
by this time had reached an alarming condition, and I 
was growing weaker day by day. 

The tempter did not fail to tell me my faith was all 
in vain; but I found strength in 1 Peter 1:6, 7. 
Mother, sister and friends were very solicitous for me, 
and strongly urged that I should consult the physician 
who was making regular visits at the house. It seemed 
to them that I was willfully committing suicide, as 
three sisters and one brother had died of consumption. 
I would plead that nowhere in God's word could be 
found that a change of climate, blisters, lung balsams, 
or anything but the prayer of faith would heal the 
sick. 

Five weeks passed, and almost every paroxysm of 
coughing caused hemorrhage. Still I feebly held on to 
the word till one morning I arose after a night of more 
than usual suffering with a feeling of extreme prostra- 
tion. I called upon the Lord for help, but the heavens 
seemed brass above me; I walked back and forth in 
agony of mind, nearly persuaded that I had made a 
mistake in not applying for medical aid. I cried, Lord, 
take the field and fight the battle for me. But I only 
heard the whizzing of the bullets from the enemy's 
musketry. 

At 3 p. m. the doctor was summoned to the house to 
care for my sister, who was taken very ill. My breath- 
ing was so labored that she could hear the whistling 
sound as I sat by her bedside, and when I saw her dis- 
tress concerning me I consented to her earnest entreaty 
to have my lungs examined; I did not tell the doctor 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 243 

that I had been prayed for and anointed, so he kindly 
left remedies and told what to use externally. 

How the enemy seemed to triumph over me. I 
looked into the glass containing the medicine and said, 
Must I, after all these weeks of suffering and waiting, 
rely upon the arm of flesh for relief? No, Father, I 
will trust Thee. Immediately peace like a river filled 
my soul, and during the rest of the day and night I had 
no paroxysms of coughing. The next morning I went 
to the Beulah Home. On entering I began coughing. 
Sister Dudley arose, laid her hand where the severest 
pain had been and began praying, but suddenly stopped 
and asked Brother Dudley to join her in "laying on of 
hands," and claiming Matt. 18 :19. A cooling influence 
filled my lung; great joy filled my soul, and the work 
was done. 

I might add many other instances where God has de- 
livered me from sickness, sometimes manifesting im- 
mediately to my body the answer to prayer, and at 
others allowing me to walk by faith that I may learn 
to rely upon His word. Nearly four years and a half 
have passed since I have taken any medicine; I am 
relying wholly upon Him who is able to deliver. It 
is so precious always to have a physician in the house 
who understands our bodies, and is able to supply all 
our needs. For "all power is given unto Him in heaven 
and in earth." 

In conclusion let me say, I have no arguments for 
the grounds I have taken except, the Spirit of God leads 
— I follow, taking Him at His word and finding a 
greater refuge than I could have found had I not been 
placed in a condition to prove His promises. To His 
glory be it said that I have been walking in a different 



244 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

spiritual realm, and the country is filled with wondrous 
beauty. God's "whosoevers" are all my theme. His 
"whatsoevers" are a part of the legacy. Let us claim 
all He in mercy hands down to us. 1 John 3:22, Ps. 
34:15, Ps. 145:18, 19, Prov. 15:29, 1 John 5:14, 15, Matt. 
7:9, 10, 11, Matt. 21:22, Mark 11:24, John 14:13, John 
15:7, Ps. 50:14, 15. 

Moreover, I most thoroughly indorse Sister Dudley's 
teachings, believing they will stand in the great day. 
I have ever found in the Beulah Home an atmosphere 
sent from above. I am also glad to say that Mr. 
Wheeler is an ardent advocate of Divine Healing, and 
gladly goes to pray for and anoint all who call for 
him. 



Mr. T. Saxton, Grand Eapids, October 14, '95. — About 
five years ago I fell down an elevator shaft in a factory, 
a distance of thirty feet, injuring my back very much. 
The pain was so great that it often interfered with my 
duties, and for six months after the fall stooping caused 
me extreme pain. 

At that time Eev. Newton, of California, was holding 
meetings in the Second Street M. E. Church, teaching 
Divine Healing. At an anointing service, in which 
Mrs. Dudley, Miss Blakney and others assisted, I was 
anointed in the name of the Lord Jesus for healing. 
Praise the Lord, I have suffered no pain since, and 
wish to give this testimony to the glory of His name. 



Mrs. Mary Gould, Middleville, Mich. — "I am the Lord 
that healeth thee." 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 245 

With gratitude to God and the dear Beulah Home in 
Grand Hapids I briefly testify to the power of the great 
Physician. The Holy Spirit taught me the first lesson 
of Divine Healing soon after I was converted. For 
several months I had been suffering extreme pain in my 
head and shoulder from neuralgia. One day, when the 
agony was very great, I went alone before the Lord and 
asked him to heal me. He heard my prayer and healed 
me instantly. I confess with shame that I once en- 
joyed smoking, but in answer to prayer the Lord de- 
livered me from the appetite. 

In 1886 cancer made its appearance. It developed 
quite fast from the first. My brother, Dr. Palmer, of 
California, said I should at once submit to a severe and 
painful treatment, the same my mother, who died of 
cancer, suffered so much from. This I had feared from 
the first, and at once exclaimed, "God forbid, I will 
trust Hira." I believe the disease was stayed from that 
hour, and held in check for three years. I laid aside all 
remedies, and trusted as far as I had light. I was sur- 
rounded by unbelief. 

In February, 1889, 1 had a very severe test, and could 
not exercise faith for myself. I had heard of the Beu- 
lah Home, felt very much drawn to go there, and did 
so. Was met at the door by Sister Dudley. I stated 
my case briefly, and requested prayer according to Jas. 
5:14. The pain left me soon after I entered the house. 
Experienced no other change at the time. That night, 
after I retired, a sweet influence stole over my whole 
being, with the blessed assurance the work was done. 
At the same time I was healed of a very severe stomach 
trouble that had caused me much suffering for many 
years. In 1892 I contracted a hard cold, which rapi dly 



246 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

developed into all the symptoms of consumption, and 
that disease was, I believe, thoroughly seated. The 
cough was severe, I raised a great deal, the soreness and 
pain in my lungs and shoulders was very distressing. 
My throat and head were so badly affected that my ears 
became painfully susceptible to the most balmy air. 

When Sister Dudley laid her hands in the name of 
Jesus upon me, I felt a lifting and smarting sensation 
in my right lung and head. The work was done. In 
less than a week every symptom of the disease was 
gone. Praise the Lord for all His benefits. 

Two years later I was taken with a violent form of 
la grippe. I struggled with the enemy about three 
weeks, then sent for Sister Dudley. She came at 11 a. 
m. I was instantly healed w x hen she anointed me in the 
name of the Lord. 

My faniity were surprised at the great change that 
took place in me. I was again attacked; went to "Beu- 
lah" and remained there nearly three weeks; received 
Bible instructions, saw marvelous works wrought by 
the mighty hand of God in that sacred place. 

Blessed of God indeed is Beulah Home. I have re- 
ceived many rich blessings there, and hope I may live 
to see that dear home free from all incumbrance and 
richly provided for, till Jesus comes. My brother, Wal- 
do Palmer, was reclaimed and healed there. I give an 
extract from his letter: "My heart has not troubled me 
since that evening at Beulah. Praise the Lord! He 
cured me of creeping paralysis and disease of the stom- 
ach. Bless His name forever! How much better it is 
than to be doping medicine down three or four times a 
day. I trust in the Lord, and He keeps me by His 
mighty power. Nothing is impossible with God. I have 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 247 

had heart trouble for fifteen years or more, and God for 
Jesus' sake healed me that evening at the Home, and I 
give Him the glory." 

My son was converted at "Beulah," and my prayer is 
that it may be the birth-place of many precious souls. 



Mrs. Emma Thomas, 66 S. Waterloo street, Grand 
Eapids, Mich., July 13, 1895. — I have always been 
troubled with salt-rheum. Mrs. Dudley was called to 
Kent City, where I then lived, to pray with and anoint 
my sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary McKelvey. I was anointed 
at the same time. The little finger of my right hand 
had been very bad for a long time. After I took the 
Lord for my healer and was anointed, my entire right 
hand became a mass of corruption, so I w^as obliged to 
dress each finger separately and could scarcely feed 
myself. My finger nails began to decay. This con- 
tinued for more than six months. I came to the place 
in this long testing, where I said: "I will continue 
trusting the Lord if my hands rot off." When I pre- 
sented myself for prayer I told them I was not sick 
only my little finger. I think the Lord wanted to show 
me I needed more than I realized, for my blood was full 
of the disease, and must be purified by faith in Him. 

During this long waiting time I learned it meant 
more than I thought it did at the time. I was taught 
many precious lessons, and began gradually to im- 
prove. After a few months was entirely healed and no 
scars left. This I had not expected, for it seemed they 
must be scarred, the sores were so deep. And my finger 



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nails are all right. My hands have been perfectly well 
for two years. All praise to my glorious Healer! 

Last January I was suddenly taken with a very sore 
throat. My tongue seemed paralyzed at the roots, so I 
could scarcely move it. My throat was black and pur- 
ple, capped with white spots. I had a burning fever, 
very severe pain in my head, and my whole body w^as 
full of pain. I sent for Sister Dudley to pray with me. 
The fever and pain left me at once. I was weak, and 
my throat remained sore for some time, when I grad- 
ually received perfect health, and have sung in the 
open air in the Salvation Army work with perfect ease. 
Using my throat for Jesus, Hallelujah! We would wit- 
ness to the truth of this testimony. 

George Thomas. 

Lizzie Miller. 

Ann Thomas. 

Mary McKelvey. 



Mrs. Minnie La Fave, Salvation Army Soldier, 16 
King St., Grand Eapids, July 13, 1895. — About seven 
years ago I was taken very sick. My chest was so sore 
that I could scarcely move mvself anv wav. I coughed 
very bad, and every time it seemed to tear my lungs. 
The doctor did not tell me it was consumption, but my 
friends said it was. 

I was advised to go to Beulah Home. I had not been 
out for several weeks, and could not walk. I rode there, 
was prayed for and anointed; instantly healed, and 
walked home, a distance of one and one-fourth miles, 
as happy as I could be. My lungs have been strong and 



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well ever since. All glory to Jesus! Every time I think 
of it it makes me rejoice and praise the Lord. 

My little four-year-old daughter had been very deaf 
for several months, as the result of a severe attack of 
typhoid fever. I had her prayed for and anointed at 
the time I was healed, and her hearing was instantly 
restored and has remained good ever since. 

Praise the Lord for His goodness! 



Mr. T. A. McMillan, Grand Eapids, October 12, 1895. 
— Mark 9:38-12. When I first heard of Divine healing, 
like John in the above text, I questioned its truthful- 
ness and divine origin. Like many others I supposed 
the day of miracles was past. Then the Savior's words, 
as in Mark 6:12, 13, came to me, and also James 5:11, 15. 

During the winter of 1892 I began to seek for the 
faith that heals the body through the atonement of 
Jesus Christ; still my faith was weak .and wavering. 
In December of the following year I was thrown from 
a sleigh and broke a rib. I sent for Sister Dudley, who 
anointed me in the name of the Lord. A sister who 
accompanied her also joined Sister D. in faith, but 
I could not believe that Jesus would heal just now, and 
so I endured three long weeks of intense suffering; 
could neither lie down nor rise up without almost un- 
endurable pain. Then God led me to go to "Beulah," 
with a determination to seek with my whole heart. I 
praise His holy name, that when we are fully given up, 
the work is soon done. 

When Sister Dudley, with two others, laid their 
hands upon me in the name of the Lord, a little grating 



250 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

sound, as of bones rubbing together, was distinctly 
heard, every breath I drew. Sister D. asked the Lord 
to bring the bones into place; we all felt them move 
as she did so, and the pain was gone; a soreness re- 
mained. She asked the Lord to remove the soreness, 
when it left immediately. I arose from my knees, giv- 
ing God all the praise, and had no more trouble with 
that. The day after I rode eighteen miles and began a 
revival service which I continued more than three 
months, holding five services on Sundays and three 
each week day, walking or riding from one to three miles 
every day. 

During this time I bore too much the burden of the 
work, lost my appetite and could not sleep. I returned 
home, and went to one of Sister Dudley's Bible read- 
ings, thinking I would not speak of my sickness, but 
God had more work for me to do, and he laid a great 
burden upon our sister's heart to supplicate the throne 
of grace for some one, she did not know who. I dropped 
upon my knees and began to weep; asked to be anoint- 
ed and was healed. In this of all the meetings I ever 
attended, Jesus seemed the most precious. I now ate 
my meals with relish (had not been able to eat any- 
thing scarcely for three weeks) and slept well. 

The next day a telegram from our superintendent of 
Baptist Sunday School Missions called me to work in 
another part of the State, where, amid many difficul- 
ties, but with much blessing, I organized a church. 

Last summer rheumatism attacked my hand; it was 
badly swollen and very painful. After being anointed 
I still favored it. In a little talk with Jesus about it 
He showed me I must use mv hand. This cost me a 



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great effort at first, but suddenly the pain left and it 
was "whole as the other." 

Oh, how can w^e distrust such a w T onderful Jesus! 



Mrs. Captain Reed, of the Christian Crusaders, Shel- 
by, Michigan, May 23, 1895. — About five years ago my 
husband and I were called of God to go out into work 
for the salvation of lost souls. We thought surely we 
must have mistaken the call, for I had suffered from 
poor health nearly all my life, being much of the time 
unable to do my own housework. 

We consecrated our lives to God, to obey Him and 
walk in His way. Saying, Lord let us make no mistake. 
Very prayerfully we asked Him to show us by mes- 
sages from His word. He gave me Ezek. 12:4-7 and 
Isa. 62, my husband getting his message in a different 
w^ay, but the call was very plain. 

I had never heard of Divine healing only as I read 
of it in the Word, and thought that medicines must of 
course be used in sickness. At this time the book 
"Beulah" came into my hands. It was read with great 
interest. Praise the Lord for the little book that gave 
me rny first* teaching upon this subject; for the light 
that led me on until I had learned the secret, Christ for 
the body as for the soul. We then made the necessary 
preparations for leaving home, and were soon out on 
the promises, going from place to place, moving as often 
as five or six weeks from that time to this. 

Marvelously did the dear Lord strengthen my w^eak 
body, though I knew very little of how T to appropriate 
His promised strength. 



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While attending a camp meeting I listened to a con- 
versation held by three preachers of the gospel. One 
was advocating Divine healing, but knew little more 
than I about it, and was not sufficiently acquainted 
with the subject to give the scriptural proof sustaining 
his position. The arguments against the Doctrine, and 
those in favor of the use of means were so forcibly pre- 
sented that I wavered and thought, "It does look like 
fanaticism to insist upon laying aside the use of human 
remedies. Certainly we niay ask and expect His bless- 
ing upon our best efforts to help ourselves." Praise the 
Lord! Only to teach me a needed lesson, did He give 
me over to Satan for a time. 

For nearly eight months I was sorely afflicted with 
hemorrhoids, suffering intense pain, employing every 
remedy within my reach which promised the least re- 
lief, occasionally finding something that would help for 
a little while; often so weak that my knees would trem- 
ble when I attempted to walk. I went to Cedar Springs 
to stay with Sister Patrick, who knew something of the 
Beulah Home, and whose little daughter was after- 
ward instantaneously and most wonderfully healed of 
paralysis and St. Vitus' dance. Made whole at once by 
our mighty Healer when anointed by Sister Dudley. 

Sister Patrick advised me to go to "Beulah," and 
about the same time a letter came from Captain Haight, 
saying: "I wish you would go to Beulah." 

I went and spent about two hours with Sister Dudley. 
She gave me three Bible readings greatly blessed of 
God, viz., Scriptural Causes of Sickness, Sickness from 
Satan, and Scriptural Means of Health. These read- 
ings are now in print, and very helpful to many. When 
she reached the last text, Mark 15:23, the words struck 



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me with convincing force, and instantly it was all made 
clear why those who trusted Him for healing could not 
use human means for help. I felt that for myself I 
could drop all remedies and trust the Lord alone, but 
ho^K about my baby? With her I had always used a 
medicine for constipation and the Devil kept me awake 
nearly all night, telling me I would be obliged to use 
the medicine for her; that if I did give it up 'twould be 
only to go back to it again. 

Next he suggested, "Your baby may get the whoop- 
ing cough, and then you will have to give her medi- 
cine," but I said, "Lord, if it will be for your glory and 
make me a better Christian, show me by making the 
baby's bowels all right to-morrow morning without the 
usual means." And she was well in the morning. Then 
my heart said: "Lord, your w r ord is true, though all 
men be liars." 

I went to Sister Dudley and was anointed, expecting 
to be instantly healed, but the Lord knew w x hat I 
needed. This illustration which she gave greatly 
helped me. When a tree is girdled it is dead, although 
the leaves may remain green for some time. On my 
return I was attacked by Satan with some lung trouble, 
accompanied with a burning fever. The Captain came 
to me, saying: "The Lord w^ants you to lead the meeting 
to-night;" to which I made answer: "I am so sick you 
will have to pray for me or I cannot go." We took it 
to the Lord and I arose, praised Him for victory, went 
into the meeting and to work, as if feeling perfectly 
well, and soon fever and pain all disappeared, and I 
had a grand time with the Lord. 

Then in less than a week, whooping cough seized the 
baby. We sent for Sister Dudley, and according to 



254 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

Jas. 5:14, 15 she was anointed and wonderfully healed. 
Glory to God! At the same time Major Campbell, of 
the Christian Crusaders, being present, was brought to 
see Jesus as the Healer of his body. He threw away 
his bottle of patent medicine just purchased, received 
Jesus as his physician, and has since been used to lead 
many into this glorious life, Jesus for the body as well 
as for the soul. It was six weeks from the time I was 
anointed before the suffering from piles was removed. 
Satan suggested often: "The Lord would cure every- 
thing but this." 

God's own word, "I am the Lord that healeth thee," 
Ex. 15:26, was my strength, and when the needed lesson 
was learned I was as well and better than I had ever 
been. Have been better able to help others because 
of precious lessons taught me while waiting. "Ye have 
need of patience, that after ye have done the will of 
God ye might receive the promise." Heb. 10 :36. 

While we were working at Croton our baby suffered 
for two weeks from bloody dysentery, having from six 
to ten movements at night, and more than a dozen dur- 
ing the day. No appetite; could eat nothing but a few 
berries. She grew too weak to raise her head. We 
anointed her; called for others to pray with us, and 
wrote to "Beulah" for prayer. 

As I was partly asleep one day there came before me 
a little open grave. Satan said, "Now the baby is going 
to die." After a hard struggle I said, "She is the Lord's 
to live or to die." Then the victory came, and she be- 
gan to improve, to laugh and play. We all praised God 
for the trial and the triumph of our faith. 

Then the Lord gave us a little boy, and for three 
months he cried nearly all the time, only when asleep. 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 255 

He grew rapidly, but going about among the people as 
we do, a great many remedies for colic were offered me. 
I said the Devil shall not have his way, this baby is the 
Lord's and He will bring him out of this in Ills time. 
He was then taken with la grippe and suffered terribly. 
Neighbors came with remedies; a minister wanted to 
get the doctor. 

The baby cried so I couldn't tell why I would not give 
him anything; only said I knew the Lord would heal 
him. The minister declared that to be Christian 
Science, Spiritualism, Fanaticism and a lot of things. 
But we anointed the baby and prayed; he went to sleep 
and slept all night, and awoke in the morning well. 
He has never had a drop of medicine; is now more than 
two years old, the picture of health. Just what the 
Lord intends our children to be, if we will only learn 
to trust them to Him instead of filling them with the 
Devil's poisons. 

Before we learned to trust in Jesus as our physician, 
two little ones were taken from us by death from the 
effects of teething. 

The two we now have we anointed in the name of the 
Lord to be kept through teething, as Satan did not fail 
to remind us that when they cut their teeth they would 
die or be very sick. There were several trials of our 
faith with the older child, but the Lord always gave 
the victory as soon as we learned what He would teach. 
The younger one never saw a sick hour from teething, 
and cut the eye and stomach teeth in August and July. 

These children know what to do if any of us are sick. 
The baby came to me one day, saying, "Ma sick, let me 
pay fo' 'oo." I said, "Well, pray." He knelt by the bed 
and said, "Lord make ma well for Jesus' sake, amen," 



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and jumped up praising the Lord and shouted, "Now ? oo 
well ma, 'cause me prayed." 

"Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast 
perfected praise." Satan had always tried to make 
me believe if my babies should have the croup, I would 
be obliged to use remedies for immediate help. We 
were awakened one night by our little four-year-old 
girl choking with croup. I said, "Captain, please pray 
for Allie at once." We first, in Jesus' name, bade Sa- 
tan leave, and told her to praise the Lord. It seemed 
she could not do it. Just as soon as she could say praise 
the Lord she did not choke again, and has not had the 
croup since. 

In the summer of 1894 I again expected to become a 
mother, but accidentally falling into a lake, was im- 
mediately taken sick. My husband had been called 
away and there was no one to offer the prayer of faith. 
Had no power to act faith for myself. When my hus- 
band reached my side friends stood weeping about my 
bed, expecting to see me die. At times I would feel 
my breath leaving me. Nearly all the blood had left 
my body, and what remained seemed turned to water. 
My body was so bloated, my eyes were nearly closed. 
My husband had all others leave the room and stayed 
by me, praying and praising God for victory. When 
morning came I breathed quite easily. In the after- 
noon my body was full of pain, and I sought to know 
what the Lord w^ould teach me. All was clear between 
God and myself; then I asked him to touch me and 
make me whole. For three hours the pains continued. 
Constantly and aloud I praised the Lord and asked my 
husband to sing, "Leaning on Jesus I'll walk at His side, 
Leaning on Jesus, my Shepherd and Guide." 



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And Jesus laid His hand upon me and healed me. 
Glory came thrilling my soul. It seemed that the win- 
dows of Heaven were open, and its light and glory 
shone all around me. Such a sweet rest possessed body 
and spirit. The Lord filled my mouth with praises; I 
told of His love, His wonderful love. My brother came 
in and thought me delirious, and insisted upon bringing 
a doctor. I told the doctor of what the Lord had done 
for me; that I was not sick now, only weak; he an- 
swered, "You are very sick," but did not urge me to 
take the medicine. 

Some said, "O, what wonderful faith." I replied, 
"No, only simple trust, and the wonderful Savior." I 
felt so well the next day I arose without asking the 
Lord what He would have me do, and thus going be- 
fore I was sent, lost the victory. For two weeks was 
again bloated with dropsy, and could scarcely walk. 
We sent to "Beulah" and to other trusting ones for 
united prayer, and at the time it was offered I began to 
gain. Improved rapidly, and two days after walked 
half a mile without any weakness resulting. A few 
days later walked five miles and led the meeting at 
night without feeling tired. Truly the "joy of the Lord 
is my strength." Eleven years before this I had passed 
through the same kind of sickness, and w x as an invalid 
for four years, much of the time not able to stand upon 
my feet. Trusting all the while in earthly means, pay- 
ing hundreds of dollars in doctor's bills. O, how much 
the dear Lord has done for me and mine; truly, more 
than we can tell or ask or think. During the past four 
years we have been permitted to see many brought into 
this blessed way of full salvation for soul and body. 

Brother and Sister Woodberry, of Muskegon, Mich., 



258 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

had a little cripple girl and were making preparations 
to give her hospital treatment, when the Lord directed 
us to go and advise them to take her to "Beulah" in- 
stead. They did so and after receiving Bible instruc- 
tion, they retired to their room to lay the matter before 
the Lord, returning in a short time with tearful faces, 
saying, "We will trust out little daughter with Jesus." 

In the evening Mrs. Dudley gave a talk on Consecra- 
tion, after which the parents consecrated themselves 
to the Lord and were filled with the Holy Ghost. Bro. 
Woodberry had been called some years before to preach 
the gospel, but had said, "Lord, I want to make a cer- 
tain amount of money first. This was permitted, but 
when it was done he was no nearer ready to heed the 
call. 

Several times this occurred and he had accumulated 
the specified amounts, but was still unsatisfied. During 
this Bible talk he and his wife were brought to see, as 
never before, the meaning of consecration, and led to 
lay all upon the altar. Upon leaving for their home 
they took with them some copies of "The Christian Al- 
liance and Foreign Missionary Weekly." In one week 
they returned to "Beulah" enroute to New York city 
to attend Mr. Simpson's Missionary Training College, 
having in this short time, in answer to prayer, sold 
their business and beautiful home. To-day they are in 
Tien Tsin, China, working for the lost. They have named 
their home there "Beulah." May they come home at 
last bringing many golden sheaves. 

I would mention another case; that of an M. E. min- 
ister, who was stubbornly opposed to the doctrine of 
Divine Healing, declaring it to be fanaticism, and that 



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he would shut the doors against us if we came to his 
charge teaching it. 

We prayed that God would give him light. After- 
ward he wrote us that he had the unbelieving wax out 
of his ears. Had taken the Lord for his Healer, as had 
many of his people. One sister had been gloriously 
healed. That the little tracts we sent him, "Divine 
Healing from a Medical Standpoint/' "Why are Believ- 
ers in Divine Healing Ever Permitted to be Sick?" and 
"How to Eeceive Divine Healing," were doing much 
good. We praise God continually for His goodness to 
us. May His richest blessings rest upon Sister Dud- 
ley and her Home for the suffering. Eternity alone 
will reveal the good done through my first visit to 
"Beulah." 

I write this for the glory of God, praying that it may 
help some suffering ones to take Jesus for all. 



Staff Capt. D. A. Beed, of the Christian Crusaders, 
Shelby, Mich., September 25, 1895. — I was born in Can- 
ada. Mother died when I was two years of age, asking 
my grandfather to tell me as soon as I could under- 
stand to get ready to meet her in Heaven. Bless God! 
I am ready to meet her now. Oh, as I look back and 
think how mercifully my heavenly Father has dealt 
with me I praise Him for His loving kindness. Had I 
been dealt with according to justice I should be in hell. 

At the age of twelve, at a Baptist revival, the blessed 
Spirit showed me that I was a very bad boy, and on the 
road to hell. I was converted ; everything was changed, 
but I met with no encouragement at home, for my 



260 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

grandparents, who belonged to the Church of England, 
did not believe in such mysteries, or that children could 
know anything about them. 

I asked grandpa if he did not think I was a better 
boy. He said he thought I was. I told him it was 
Jesus who made me so. He w r ould not believe it; said 
I was too young to know anything about salvation. 

Let me here say to parents, I know what it is to go 
to different places in the barn kneeling, praying, crying 
and wishing some one would speak an encouraging 
w^ord to me, and help me to lead a Christian life. When 
I asked grandpa if he had been converted he was very 
angry, and said he had belonged to the church for fifty 
years, but he would often lose his temper, and some- 
times swear. He always kept liquor in the cellar and 
the boys drank with the men. Many do worse to-day in 
keeping cider. 

When I was fourteen years old the old homestead was 
sold, with its belongings, for $4,500. Grandpa gave 
me twenty-five cents, telling me to gather up my 
clothes (which consisted of a clean shirt and a pair of 
socks), that I must find work and take care of nn self. 
I said "good-bye" and started off feeling down-hearted 
enough. I knelt by a chestnut tree and prayed I might 
find work and have money to carry me through this 
world. I got up feeling as happy as a lark. Glory to 
God! The first man I asked gave me work without set- 
ting a price. I was but a small boy and the work re- 
quired the strength of a man. The blessed Lord helped 
me, and the foreman was well pleased. After working 
for three months I asked for my pay. If the man had 
given me fifty cents a day I would have been satisfied, 
but to my surprise he gave me one dollar. Truly God 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 261 

answers prayer. I worked until late in the fall, when I 
had one hundred and fifty dollars. Then I worked at 
a trade, getting thirty dollars the first year, thirty-five 
the second and forty the third. Then started in busi- 
ness; forgot the mercies of God, smoked, swore, drank, 
but always made money. Grandpa came to w r ant; I 
took care of him for two years. 

God gave me a good wife, who ahvays stood by me. 
I came to Shelby, Mich., and opened a business; worked 
from five o'clock in the morning till ten at night. Drank 
fifty cents' worth of whiskey a day to keep up my 
strength; was trying to pay for a little home for my 
family, but spent more for drink than I paid on the 
home; I fell in with a rough class of gamblers and in- 
fidels, who scoffed at religion, with whom I spent more 
time than with my family. This education fitted me 
for eight years of misery such as words cannot express. 
I was breaking the heart of my loyal wife and bring- 
ing disgrace upon the children God had given me. I 
became downhearted and blue; so full of misery I 
wished I could die; drank to get over it, drank again 
to bring it on. Death seized one of my blessed little 
children; my heart was still harder; I cursed God and 
drank to drown my trouble. Misery, misery until the 
dread messenger came and took my little boy. As I 
saw his precious form lowered in the grave I said to 
God and to myself, I will meet that little one in Heaven. 

I came home, lay on the bed and cried until I heard 
a little voice saying, "Come this way, papa, come this 
way." Could stand it no longer; got up and went to 
that cursed cup to find relief, but was only heaping 
misery upon misery. I now decided to take my own 
life; came home drunk, took my revolver to do the 



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awful deed. My blessed wife plead with me for six 
hours before I could realize the aw T f ul thing I was about 
to do. I promised her I would quit drinking. This I 
had promised dozens of times, but she w r as so true to 
me she believed it every time. The appetite was there 
and I could not help myself; went to some of my as- 
sociates, who told me I must have my regular drink. 
This advice pleased me. Drink has since taken them 
both into eternity. 

My hatred of the word God increased; I talked 
against it freely. The devil gave me some real good 
arguments, which seemed to me true. I spent much 
time in the saloon and at the card table, where I found 
ready listeners who flattered and encouraged me in 
this belief. The devil helped me through them, until 
it seemed I was right while I was talking, but at some 
midnight hour, as I was nearing my home where my 
faithful wife was looking for me, a still, small voice 
would say, "What have you been talking that stuff 
for? You know better. Your mother said she would 
meet you in Heaven and you have tw^o little children 
there." I would say, "Yes," but soon forget all about it. 

Soon after our little ones were taken from us my 
blessed wife found Jesus as her Savior, and was ready 
to meet our darling children in Heaven. My wife was 
anxious I should join her. The kind Christian friends 
who came to our relief in our bereavement and had said, 
"Look to Jesus," had a meeting at our house and asked 
if they should pray for me. Keluctantly I said "Yes." 

Dear reader, see how the devil will work when he 
has one under his control; the next day he sent one of 
his agents along in the form of a traveling man selling 
buggies. This man took from his pocket a little Testa- 



ONE CONSECRATED LIFE. 263 

ment and showed me "how the Scripture contradicts 
itself." After three hours' talk the foul bird devoured 
the "good seed" that had been sown. My good wife was 
expecting our home to be happier, but alas, the Devil 
had taken another hold upon me; I was cross; noth- 
ing suited me. My wife asked what was the matter. I 
could not tell. When the Devil gets into people he 
makes them mean. 

I ate my supper and started for the saloon and card 
table, telling the people there that I was the happiest 
man walking Michigan soil. What a lie! I was really 
the most miserable man. 

The next thing the Devil put into my head was to 
leave my wife if she joined the church. She said then 
she would not join the church, but she could not give 
up her Lord. I had said to the minister and to the kind 
friends who had spoken to me about my wife joining 
the church that I had no objections, so they must know 
it was my fault if she did not join. The Devil always 
likes to have people look well on the outside. I told 
my wife she could join the church, but, Oh, what a big 
Devil there was inside of me in the form of that old, 
ugly temper, then too, he led me to drink twice as hard. 

I added to my carriage and blacksmithing business a 
livery and sale stable, making lots of money and drink- 
ing more than ever; would not spend fifteen minutes 
at home day or night; slept in the office at the barn; 
was seldom at home with my wife, and Mamie, my 
only child, who would sometimes perch herself upon 
my knee and put her little hands to my face and say, 
"Papa, you ought to be a Christian." It w^ould touch 
my heart until tears would come to my eyes; then I 



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would put her down and go to my drink, trying to 
drown my feelings. 

On I went until often in the morning I could scarcely 
get the cup of coffee to my lips. Mamie would hold the 
cup w T hile I drank. Misery upon misery! Though I 
was making money, had money in the bank and ap- 
peared to my neighbors to be happy; have spent a hun- 
dred dollars on one drunk; was losing my mind; could 
not remember anything ten minutes; became so dis- 
couraged I made up my mind to drink myself to death 
as soon as possible. The saloonkeeper told me I would 
take ten drinks before leaving the saloon, and return in 
an hour for more, as if I had not had a drop. 

One night as I came from that hell-hole I looked up 
into the heavens, when a voice spoke to me very loudly, 
saying, "If you don't stop drinking you will go to a 
drunkard's grave, and to a drunkard's hell." The words 
startled me and I said, "I will sober up." I went into 
my office, fastened the door and window, so no one could 
possibly get in, thinking probably I would have to 
stay two full days. I lit the lamp, started a fire in the 
stove and went to bed, dropped to sleep and awoke 
about twelve o'clock, feeling more clear in mind than 
usual. I was very thirsty; had no water, but deter- 
mined I would not go out of that office until I was so- 
ber. I thought of a bottle of whisky on the shelf be- 
hind the stove; thought I would drink that to quench 
my thirst, but to my surprise could not move. The Lord 
was warning me for the last time. I tried to believe I 
was dreaming or had the nightmare; would count the 
spots on the wall; tried to move my fingers but could 
not; got a glimpse of them; they looked as large as 
my wrist. Seemingly my head began to sink until my 



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breath left my body. I thought I must die. Oh, the 
awful pain; a drunkard's hell was opening before me, 
still no thought of God. At last my good wife and Ma- 
mie, with the little ones who had gone to be with Jesus, 
stood before me. I realized the disgrace and wished I 
could drown myself so that my loved ones would never 
see me, but they will find me dead here and know that I 
died drunk. 

Again a voice spoke to me, saying, "You have said 
God never did anything for you; you would not ask 
Him. You had better ask Him now to help you." In that 
dreadful moment I spoke these words, "If there is a 
God, help me out of this." In a moment I was out of 
bed, walked to the stove, but did not think of the whisky 
on the shelf. Oh, what a merciful God! Then the voice 
said, "You had better pray." I replied, "I never pray; 
the last prayer I made w r as under the chestnut tree 
when I w 7 as a boy." The voice said, "You know 7 what 
to pray for." "Yes, I know; I will pray, for I want to 
get rid of this terrible appetite and nervousness, and I 
don't want to be shut up in a dark room as I have been 
many times." I dropped upon my knees and cried to 
that merciful God, "If there is a God, take this appe- 
tite for drink away from me, and don't let me be ner- 
vous in the morning, and I promise I will never touch 
another drop of liquor, and I'll never again deny there 
is a God." Praise the Lord! I went to bed and slept. 
In the morning had no desire for drink. My nerves were 
steady. How good God has been to me. I meant all 
I had promised. I did not tell anyone my experience, 
not even my wife, for a year. 

I spent five hundred dollars traveling about trying 
to get salvation; told my wife I was going to be a Chris- 



266 SOME OP THE FRUITS OF 

tian, but wouldn't let anyone know it. Then the Devil 
told me all church members were hypocrites. I went to 
hear Sam Small and Sam Jones preach; the latter told 
me if I did not like hypocrites to get out of their com- 
pany and not go to hell, where I'd have to spend all 
eternity with them ; got me to promise I would not say 
anything more about them until I had tried being a 
Christian myself. 

I returned home, five hundred miles distant, went to 
the old church where I had called them all hypocrites; 
deep conviction settled upon me; I went home, swear- 
ing I would never go inside another church. But the 
next night found me there; two men came to talk with 
me; my wife told them I knew what was right, but 
would not yield. I was very angry and said to her, "I 
will," starting at once for the front. Seemingly every 
light in the church went out. As I sat down on the 
front seat the Devil said, "You've made a big fool of 
yourself. Everybody will laugh at you to-morrow." I 
said, "I don't care, I am going to be a Christian." I 
settled up with God and promised I would do the 
things a Christian ought to do, even to vote against 
whisky. Praise God! Even before I knelt at the altar 
I was saved. 

When I arose from my knees I told my old chums I 
was saved, and I knew I was without a doubt. 

I found great pleasure in talking and working for the 
Lord for about three months, when one day my temper 
got the start of me, and I found that in my heart I was 
a murderer, for I hated my brother man. 1 John 3:15. 
There are many such murderers to-day. Inborn sin 
caused me much trouble and hindered my work for 
God; I did not know how to help it until I learned 



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through God's word it was the "old man" Jesus came 
to destroy. Praise the Lord! when I brought all the 
tithes into the store house the "old man" passed out, 
and the blessed Holy Spirit came in and I knew I was 
free. 

At this time I realized I was called to some work for 
the Master, but did not know what, until the Christian 
Crusade work started six years ago. I went into the 
work, taking with me my wife and daughter Mamie. 

Four years ago my wife was nearly an invalid; at 
times could scarcely walk; we tried so many kinds of 
medicine we were carrying about quite a drug store of 
boxes and bottles, but they helped only for a short 
time. Providentially we heard of Beulah Home, 
Grand Kapids. My wife went there, received Bible les- 
sons and took Jesus for her physician; returned to the 
work, had quite a trial until her faith "touched the hem 
of His garment," and she was made whole. Praise God! 
I also was a slave to medicine; took quinine nearly 
every night before meeting to keep up strength, but 
through Mrs. Dora Dudley was led to accept Divine 
Healing. Thank God for Beulah Home. 

Four years have passed into eternity and the blessed 
Jesus has defeated the Devil in every trial, as Mrs. 
Keed's experience shows. 

While holding meetings in N. Muskegon _ was great- 
ly burdened for the salvation of the people, but had 
such a serious attack of la grippe that I was quite un- 
able to get out of bed. I worried a great deal, thought 
I must be in the work, did not like to leave the meetings 
in charge of the members of the Band. While they were 
at the meeting I inquired of the Lord what lesson he 
wanted to teach me. He said, "The work is mine; I am 



268 SOME OF THE FRUITS OF 

more interested in souls than you can be; would you 
be willing to lie here if I want you to, no matter what 
people think ?" I said, "Yes, if you want to teach me a 
lesson of patience; I will take it just as you w^ant me 
to." I praised God and left myself and all in his hands. 
In the morning I called my wife and the members of 
the Band to cast out the Devils and lay hands on me 
in the name of the Lord. Some laughed, some cried, but 
as each prayed the glory of the Lord shone around us. 

I arose and dressed. From that time was able to at- 
tend the meetings every night. When we have learned 
the lessons God would teach us the victory will come. 
Hallelujah! 

Since we have been in the Lord's work our heavenly 
Father has given us two little children, the same num- 
ber He took to Himself when He touched my hard 
heart. We are a happy family, for we all have faith; 
even little Willie, not yet three years old, will call on 
the Great Physician in any time of need. If he hurts 
himself he will say, "Pay for me;" then he will say, 
"Paise the Lord." No more crying after he says, 
"Paise the Lord." 

For over five years we have been in the battle every 
night, bringing souls to Jesus. We have seen over 
3,000 souls brought to His feet, and have seen many 
healed, and are stronger than when we began. 

We believe in and teach the four-fold Gospel, Jesus 
our Savior, Sanctifier, Healer and Coming King. "He 
which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quick- 
ly. Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus." Eev. 22:20. 



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Salvation, Salvation we mean to tell it all the world around. 
Salvation for the body, 
Salvation for the mind, 
Salvation for all people, 
I am glad you all may find. 



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